On the other hand, the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Havana has denied for the third time a change of detention measures for the teenager Jonathan Torres Farrat, in custody for having participated in the 11J. In their provisional conclusions, the accusers explain that although many of the 500 citizens who gathered on June 11 in the park of the San Antonio de los Balo church called for an end to the power cuts and protested the shortage of medicines, others persued “subverting the constitutional order,” among which are the 17 defendants. The penalties requested by the Prosecutor’s Office seem to be becoming the norm for those cases that are still pending trial. Dozens of protesters who were summarily prosecuted over the summer received minor fines and penalties. The rest of the accused are Carlos Manuel Pupo Rodríguez, Miguel Díaz Zaldívar, Osdany Antonio Ricardo Aguilar, Rolando López Rodríguez, Yordan Esteban Brook Amador, Miguel Díaz Sosa, Ariel Pérez Montesino, Omar Hernández Calzadilla, Denis Hernández Ramírez, Cristian Reyes Pérez, Adrián Rodríguez Morera and Jany Millo Espinosa. Yoan de la Cruz, the young man who broadcast the march live, could be sentenced to 8 years in prison, just like Adrián Rodríguez Morera.ĭe la Cruz, Yunier Claro la Guardia and Julián Manuel Mazola Beltrán are named as those who encouraged the crowds to denigrate Miguel Díaz-Canel, Raúl Castro and the Police as an institution, as well as the economic and social order of the country,” with the intention of creating chaos in the territory,” says the official document.įor Mazola Beltrán they ask for 10 years, the same as for Carlos Manuel Pupo Rodríguez. The highest sanctions, 12 years, are for Rolando Yusef Pérez Morera and Joel Díaz Hernández. The Prosecutor’s Office is asking for between 6 and 12 years in prison for them, for crimes such as “contempt”, “attack”, “instigation to commit a crime” and “public disorder”. (Screen capture)ġ4ymedio, Havana, 7 October 2021 - A total of 17 people are being tried this week for their participation in the peaceful demonstration on July 11 in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, which lit the fuse for the rest of the protests in the country that Sunday. The family of Jonathon Torres Farrat, one of the minors detained after the peaceful protests of July 11th.