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Almost 400 people in Cuba are sentenced for last year's protests

2022-06-14T14:08:45.377Z


Some 381 people were sanctioned in Cuba for the 2021 protests, of which almost 300 will spend several years in jail.


Protests in Cuba: July 11, the day some said "enough" 0:20

(CNN) --

The Cuban Attorney General's Office announced sanctions for 381 people in connection with their participation in the anti-government protests that took place on the island on July 11, 2021, in which Cubans called for the resignation of President Miguel Díaz- Cinnamon.

In a statement released Monday, the attorney general said that 381 people were sanctioned for "sedition; sabotage; robbery with force and violence; attacks; contempt and public disorder."

Of those 381 people, 297 were sentenced to prison terms of between 5 and 25 years.

The remaining 84 people, including young people between 16 and 18 years old, were sentenced to alternative sentences, some of whom will perform correctional work instead of spending time in jail.

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The statement said that the events of July 11, 2021 "threatened the constitutional order and stability of our socialist state."

Thousands of Cubans demonstrated last July, and CNN crews on the ground in Havana witnessed protesters being forcibly arrested.

People took to the streets in a rare show of protest in Cuba against the lack of freedoms and the bad economic situation.

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At the time, Cuban artists, writers, and musicians denounced the arrests and called for an amnesty for nonviolent protesters.

During the protests, the demonstrators mainly complained about power cuts, food shortages and the government's handling of the covid-19 pandemic, hurting an economy already badly affected by sanctions during the Trump administration and that it relies on tourism, all but gone during the 2020 lockdowns to contain the virus.

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Source: cnnespanol

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