Cuba sentences 22-year-old mother to 15 years in prison for publishing videos of protests
Cuba sentences 22-year-old mother to 15 years in prison for publishing videos of protests
Mayelín Rodríguez Prado was arrested after uploading images to Facebook of a small demonstration in Nuevitas in August 2022
Mayelín Rodríguez Prado was arrested after uploading images to Facebook of a small demonstration in Nuevitas in August 2022
At the age of 22, Mayelín Rodríguez Prado received the heaviest of the sentences the Cuban government handed down to a group of 13 people who demonstrated in August 2022 in the municipality of Nuevitas, in central Cuba. Prado, who is the mother of a little girl, will serve 15 years in prison for publishing the protests through the social network Facebook.
Prado recorded the moment in which Cuban police beat three girls during the demonstration, as well as other repressive actions against protestors. The young woman, whose daughter at the time was less than a year old, was detained at her home after the protest and held in solitary confinement at a State Security facility.
The judicial sentence issued by the Municipal Court of Camagüey, to which the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) had access, states that the court agreed to punish Prado as “author of an intentional and consummated crime of enemy propaganda of a continuous nature” and “author of an intentional and consummated crime of sedition.” The court also announced sentences of between four and 14 years for 12 other participants in the demonstration for the same crimes. According to the Cuban Penal Code, sedition is a “crime against the internal security of the State,” and anyone who “tumultuously and by means of express or tacit agreement, using violence, disturbs the socialist order” can be prosecuted on that charge.
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Waiting for the Tankies to tell us how this is actually a good thing
Wondering how they can tie this to American sanctions like they do with every other issue Cuba has.
So I will take a stab at it
Sanctions aren’t relevant here to the outcome though you could relate them to the need for protest which still wouldn’t justify the outcome. It would let you side with the protesters for being the power of the people and exemplifying Juche
however the US’ track record with both Cuba and the governments of other American countries does reasonably lead to paranoia
Also worth noting Cuba is a dictatorship not communist
Agreed, but to your last point, it is also worth noting that there are different economic models under authoritarian regimes. Both Nazi Germany and the USSR were dictatorships. Is it Marixist Communism in Cuba? No. But it is recognizable as a communist state as was perpetuated by the Soviet Union historically, regardless if you feel the term has been misappropriated.
Hmmm….
The Western idea of a dictatorship is exaggerated.
One person being able to kill and erase from the country's history books anyone under him, but is unable to micromanage every detail for a country with millions of people and is still forced to delegate tasks, does not make a dictatorship. Got it CIA. Thanks for the details of the semantics of the situation of these authoritarian regimes.
Like this.
“Every possible means should be undertaken to promptly weaken the economic life of Cuba,” Lester D. Mallory, then the deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, said in April 1960, arguing that U.S. policy should aim “to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”
That wrong doesn’t excuse someone being locked up for the “crime” of taking pictures of police brutality.
Right. But it does tie it to the American sanctions like every other issue Cuba has.
Ah, because of the root of the protest? I guess so, although Castro wasn’t exactly tolerant of political opponents prior to the sanctions.
I'm not a tankie, and it's not a good thing, but this isn't exactly a great time for the US to puff it's chest out about our right to protest and protections for whistle blowers.
They didn't mention the US
Did you read the article?
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian A. Nichols also criticized the convictions. " The harsh sentencing this week of up to 15 years in prison for Cubans who peacefully assembled in Nuevitas in 2022 is outrageous,” he said on X. “The Cuban government’s continued repression of Cubans striving to fulfill their basic rights and needs is unconscionable.”
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But whatabout...!
By referring to "tankies" it was already an implied comparison between Cuba and more western democracies, and this is the Midwest instance. Accusations of "Whataboutism" are way overdone.
Individuals need to be sacrificed to the greater good of the revolution?
Honestly I'd respect them more if they went with that more frequently. At least we could agree on facts, then, even if we might depart on moral judgements.
Looks like the imaginary tankies didn't show up.
At least now that child won't be raised by some radical.
Most modern social rights beliefs were at some point in history, if not still are, radical
Hell yeah! Hope that kid gets lost for good. Focus on the dream Xi has for us ALL!