Translator: Unstated, Yamil Domínguez
As I mentioned before, that later I would talk about the injustices that
still remain in Cuban prisons, and their systems of torture in the
process of interrogations that are so hidden from the world. A system
designed to establish their totalitarianism and the State terror that
under no circumstances can promote the exercise of law; of course the
criminal violations are so many that this society of terror could not
move against common citizens who understand and know their rights.
First, they could not undertake with impunity their tortures in the
systems of interrogation. they could not pressure or coerce to obtain a
false statement that would be invalid in a court that complies with the
law and not the Inquisition under the interest and terror of the State.
The measure of clemency to the limited number of 3000 prisoners is
entirely inadequate and disrespectful to the people and the thousands
and thousands of families who suffer the consequence of a state that
promotes indiscriminate arrests and pre-determined trialseven when there
is irrefutable proof of innocence the person is still punished.
Then imagine if for those who have not committed a crime or infraction
they are prosecuted and sanctioned in a court no matter how many
elements there are in favor of of the defendant making clear his
innocence, we can imagine then that there are those who did commit a
crime and the inventions that are added on to condemn him to a penalty
greater than that for the crime committed.
So the prisons in Cuba are full. The Cuban government should greatly
increase the number of pardons, but most still see the base of the
problem that has made a great majority of young people prisoners and
every Cuban family is living with the bitter experience of having a
member in prison or knowing of the cruel methods of tortures in the
so-called interrogation centers.
If we talk about those who already take advantage of their conditional
liberty — i.e. parole — and even in this they can delay and postpone it,
not to mention suspend it without justification. Discrimination against
Cubans living abroad whom they take advantage of is another of the
crimes in Cuban prisons, imposing a forced repatriation, making them
renounce their foreign residence which is supposed to make the world
believe that they are sorry they live outside Cuba, or on the contrary
forcing them to serve criminal sentences and complete them without ever
getting parole, which is almost half the sentence, taking into account
that a year in prison is ten months, but they don't even get that
discount, much less of they are residents in the European Union.
Instead they have to comply with Resolution number 9 from the "People's
Supreme Court" of Cuba, approved in December 2009, where it establishes
that deportation for those citizens resident abroad at the midpoint of
their sentences, or it can be for their state of health or other factor.
But it is never met and after speaking about a very particular case
among the many, there is clear evidence of that.
March 25 2012
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