Human rights organizations announced on Friday that a Cuban activist who posted pictures of herself on Facebook while wrapped in her country's flag was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of “insulting the symbols of the nation.”
“yesterday [jeudi] The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights announced on Thursday that the sentence issued against activist and political prisoner Anette Gonzalez Garcia was known, meaning 3 years of deprivation of liberty.
Anette Gonzalez (44 years old), who was arrested in March 2023, had participated in an initiative entitled “Science Belongs to Everyone,” launched in solidarity with the visual artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, who was sentenced in 2022 to five years in prison on charges of “insulting state symbols.” . Homeland, anger and general unrest.”
“We condemn the three-year prison sentence against Anette Gonzalez for publishing on social networks a photo with the national flag in solidarity with Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara,” condemned Amnesty International Americas on Friday.
In October, Annette Gonzalez was tried before a court in Camagüey, a province located in eastern Cuba.
Several human rights organizations and the US Embassy in Havana count about a thousand “political prisoners” on the island, including hundreds of participants in the anti-government protests on July 11, 2021.
The United States, the European Union and the Catholic Church called for their release.
The Cuban government has no political prisoners on the island.
