More Jail Time for Shouting and Handing out Leaflets than Castro got for Assaulting an Army Barracks

More Jail Time for Shouting and Handing out Leaflets than Castro got for
Assaulting an Army Barracks / Angel Santiesteban
Posted on July 17, 2013

Prisoner of conscience in punishment cell

Piloto Barceló is in the punishment cell for demanding his rights. He
has served more than half of his sentence, so he should be receiving the
benefit of "minimum security"; but the authorities are like always, and
their ears are especially deaf to opponents of the regime.

Piloto finds himself sentenced to six years in jail for protesting in
the Plaza of the Revolution against the atrocities of the Cuban regime.
According to his indictment "for threatening the figures of the leaders
of the Revolution," that is, right now, Pilot has served the same amount
of time that Fidel Castro served for assaulting the barracks of the
constitutional army, to which must be added the lives of the fallen
soldiers. Clearly, Piloto will be imprisoned longer for shouting and
handing out leaflets, than was Castro for assaulting a barracks with
their firearms.

Whoever utters a word against the dictator, is punished as if he
assasinated him. However, Piloto, from his cell, continues to struggle
against the regime, and warns them that the time will come when he will
be testifying before a jury about their abuse.


Ángel Santiesteban-Prats. Prison 1580, July 2013

15 July 2013

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