Cuba - February 3, 2022

Emergency call to all the workers' and human rights organizations around the world

FREE ALL THE POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE 11-J UPRISING FOR BREAD, RIGHT NOW!

Down with the crackdown to the hungry Cuban people by the new infamous regime responsible of selling out Cuba to the capitalists and the transnational companies!
Everyone must stand with the mothers of the imprisoned comrades!
An injury to one is an injury to all!
The uprising against hunger is not a crime, it’s justice!

Since mid-January the kangaroo courts are worsening against the exploited and the worker youth that in July 2021 took to the streets in their thousands, powered by hunger, lack of medicines, food and other basics scarcity, against the repression and for their rights. The exploiters' government of the new bourgeoisie of Castro-Canel then launched a brutal crackdown imprisoning and chasing hundreds of them. In these protests, young Diubis Laurencio was murdered by the police in the working class neighbourhood of La Guinera. There are 730 youth in detention centres, of which 72 are women. Those imprisoned who have been released are still waiting for trial to get bail or house arrest.

The mothers of these boys and girls denounce mistreats to their children, which are between 13 and 17 years old and some of them suffer diseases and have had previous surgeries, like  under-aged Rowland Castillo Castro, who is not allowed to see his mother, much less for her to be near him. The same happens with some youth from the La Guinera neighbourhood, like Emilio Roman Rodriguez (25 years old), for whom the prosecutor asked 20 years of prison, Emiyoslan Roman (under 17 years old), whose sentence was reduced from 15 to 7 years, and Mackyani Roman (24 years old), for whom the prosecutor asked 25 years of prison. Those three siblings stand accused of “sedition”, for which charge their mother, Teresa de Jesus Rodriguez, denounces publicly different irregularities in their trials. Likewise, in the trial that took place in Toyo on January 31, the families of the youth that were on trial there were repressed and imprisoned only for demanding freedom for their children.
In the face of these unfair sentences that the Cuban regime is applying to the youth, we echo the war-cry of the Cuban mothers against the unfair sentences to their children: “May the whole world join us and support us”, “We are not counterrevolutionary, we are public servants and workers of this country, social workers, teachers, nurses. We need to be heard. They can’t convict them. We will be with them up to the end”. For this reason, we appeal to all the workers' organizations, human rights organizations, militant students and relatives of political prisoners of the whole continent to make an international solidarity campaign, because we cannot let the fighters of the working class, which came out to fight against hunger, to remain locked down for another minute. We must not let them and their families remain alone!
They are part of the working class and militant youth that in Latin America have confronted the attacks of their governments, puppets of imperialism, which after starving the workers and the common people react to the Resistance of the exploited with imprisonment, persecution, mutilations and killings, as in Chile, where there are hundreds of prisoners taken hostage by the Pinochetista regime. The same goes for Colombia, where the workers and youth that rose up have been imprisoned, and the selective massacre of activists and social leaders is deepening. And also in Bolivia, where they went massacring with the fascist coup. In Argentina, the fighters of December 2017, such as Sebastian Romero, are still imprisoned, while hundreds of comrades are still prosecuted and convicted, like the oil workers of Las Heras. In the face of these injustices, the mothers and relatives in the continent keep a relentless fight for justice and freedom. The struggle of the mothers of Cuba for the freedom of their children should be a banner of the working class and the black movement in the US, who have also suffered the killing of their children by the police in that country.
This attack on the most militant sectors of the vanguard is an attack to all the exploited and the world working class, to try and punish all the exploited that march against hunger and repression. We can’t allow it!
One single class, one single struggle! FREE THE ONES IMPRISONED FOR FIGHTING!

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We hereby reproduce the denounce to the brutal persecution, crackdown and imprisonment that are taking place in Cuba by the hand of the anti-worker Diaz-Canel and the Cuban regime.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/119947266958317/
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TRIALS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE BETWEEN JANUARY 31 AND FEBRUARY 7

The trial to the Toyo protestors in the Provincial Court of Havana will take place during the days between January 31 and February 7. 33 People will be on trial for "committing sedition", including 6 minors.
Following are the names of the workers and youth and the years in prison that the government is asking for them,

1. Juan Emilio Perez Estrada (27), 25 years deprived of freedom.
2. Asley Nelson Cabrera Puente (39), 25 years.
3. Donger Soroa González (30), 25 years.
4. Yoanky Báez Albornoz (27), 25 years.
5. Rowland Jesús Castillo Castro (17), 23 years.
6. Alexander Ayllón Carvajal (23), 23 years.
7. Ronald García Sánchez (28), 23 years.
8. Jorge Vallejo Venegas (35), 22 years.
9. Alexis Borges Wilson (57), 22 years.
10. Henry Fernández Pantera (40), 22 years.
11. Francisco Eduardo Soler Castañeda (49), 22 years.
12. Lauren Martínez Ibáñez (18), 21 years.
13. Duannis Dabel León Taboada (22), 21 years.
14. Adael Jesús Leyva Díaz (24), 21 years.
15. Dayan Gustavo Flores Brito (22), 20 years.
16. Oscar Bárbaro Bravo Cruzata (23), 20 years.
17. Yussuán Villalba Sierra (31), 20 years.
18. Daisy Rodríguez Alfonso (38), 20 years.
19. Kendry Miranda Cárdenas (17), 20 years.
20. Ricardo Duque Solís (55), 19 years
21. Edel Cabrera González (28), 19 years.
22. Luis Armando Cruz Aguilera (21), 18 years.
23. Kevin Damián Frómeta Castro (19), 18 years.
24. Brandon David Becerra Curbelo (17), 18 years.
25. Yunior García Vizcay (27), 18 years.
26. Adrián Oljales Mora (23), 17 years.
27. Yunaiky De La Caridad Linares Rodríguez (24), 17 years.
28. Oriol Hernández Gálvez (48), 17 years.
29. Rafael Jesús Núñez Echenique (21), 16 years.
30. Brayan Piloto Pupo (16), 16 years.
31. Lázaro Noel Urgelles Fajardo (16), 13 years.
32. Nayn Luis Marcos Molinet (21), 17 years.
33. Giuseppe Belaunzarán Guada (17), 13 years.