2024-02-16 04:49:05
(EFE).- The NGO Prisoners Defenders (PD) this Wednesday raised the number of political prisoners in Cuba to 1,066, after including three new inmates on its list in January.
The organization, based in Madrid, indicated in its monthly report that in January ten political prisoners were released from its list and released.
The document published on the NGO’s website stated that there are 33 minors on the list of prisoners, of which 29 are serving sentences and four are being criminally prosecuted. The minimum criminal age in Cuba is 16 years.
Last month three new inmates entered the list and ten left
According to PD, “17 of the minors have already been convicted of sedition” with sentences of five years in prison. “Currently, the majority are in house confinement or forced labor without internment,” he indicated.
The statement added that 225 protesters have been charged with sedition and at least 213 have already been sentenced to an average of ten years in prison each.
PD also denounced that there are 114 prisoners (including several transgender ones) who “still have political and conscientious convictions and convictions.”
“All trans women in prison of conscience have been and are imprisoned among men, which also happens with common trans prisoners, suffering situations, among men, indescribable for their sexual condition,” the organization denounced.
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