US Embassy asks the release of Saylí Navarro and all Cuban political prisoners

The United States Embassy in Cuba requested Freedom for the Lady of White and a dam of Saylí Navarro conscience, and for all political prisoners who serve sentences in the island’s prisons.

«Saylí Navarro, activist and defender of Human Rights in Cuba, was arrested and condemned for joining the protests of the 11J with his father, Félix Navarro #75. His only ʼDelitoʼ was to demand a better future for his country. Today he remains imprisoned, suffering for his peaceful activism,» said the statement.

Navarro, declared «A consciousness» by Amnesty International and sentenced to eight years in prison in March 2022 for the crimes of attack and public disorder, he fulfills his sentence in the prison of women La Bellotex, in Matanzas. On July 12, 2021 she was violently arrested with her father when they presented themselves at the police station of her city, Perico, in the province of Matanzas, to inquire about the situation of the members of her movement that had been arrested the day before during the protests.

«It’s time for all other political prisoners to release her,» said the embassy.

Since his appointment in November as head of the mission of the US Embassy in Havana, the diplomat Mike Hammer, has advocated for the liberation of Cuban political prisoners and has held meetings with their relatives and with activists, opponents and religious leaders to know «their situations, concerns and aspirations.»

Saylí is the daughter of Félix Navarro, a 71 -year -old opponent, founder of the Democracy Party «Pedro Luis Boitel», recently released after negotiations between the regime and the Church. She is also the promoter of the Cuba platform decides and co -founder of the Ladies Movement of Blanco, a group of mothers, wives and daughters of the group of the 75 people arrested in the «black spring.»

The prison authorities where he is prevented from his mother, the lady of Blanco Sonia Álvarez Campillo, visit her daughter for dressed in the characteristic color of the opposition group.

In addition, his parents have denounced violations of their rights, such as the prolonged suspension of intercarcellium visits with Félix Navarro while he was also in prison, the «infrahuman conditions» of jail and harassment of jailers.

The 38 -year -old activist has lived the consequences of state repression against her father. She was expelled from the University in 2010 for her «counterrevolutionary links» in addition, state security agents and police authorities have arrested it arbitrarily, subject to interrogations and has received threats several times.