Havana/Sulmira Martínez Pérez, known as Salem Cubacould be sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to the prosecutor’s request, to which she had access Martí News. The 22-year-old girl, arrested in January of last year, is accused of “contempt” and committing “crimes against the constitutional order” for announcing on her Facebook account her intention to hold a protest in the streets.
The prosecution requests “two years of deprivation of liberty for contempt; nine years of deprivation of liberty for a crime against the constitutional order and, as a joint and sole sanction, 10 years of deprivation of liberty,” the text details.
Additional sanctions based on articles 42.1, 52.1 and 59.1 of the Penal Code could be applied to the young woman, which include the deprivation of rights, the confiscation of assets and the prohibition of leaving the Island.
Additional sanctions could be applied, including deprivation of rights, confiscation of assets and prohibition from leaving the Island.
According to the accusation, the young woman’s actions were aimed at “changing the political, economic and social order established in the Constitution of the Republic” and making reference to the slogan: “To the Street, until triumph, Homeland and Life.”
The young woman’s mother, Norma Pérez Ferrer, reported in Martí News that her daughter “has been given things that are not, things that are true, but things that are lies” in the tax petition.
The Prosecutor’s Office, as specified in the accusations, will present various evidence. Among them are a statement from Martínez Pérez and the results of a search of his telephone and his house in Las Guásimas, Arroyo Naranjo, Havana.
Last April, a “confession” was shown on television in which Salem Cuba incriminated itself: “the publications that I made were of all kinds against the revolutionary process, the same was against the president, against the Government, against the party, against all”.
Salem Cuba “did two interviews,” said his mother. “The first was the one they published and the second was the one she made normal, the real one,” denounced her mother.
However, the detainee’s mother clarified that in Villa Marista, the State Security headquarters in Havana “they gave him (Martínez Pérez) a piece of paper so that he could read everything, everything, what he had to say.” According to the woman in a video of her, “they tricked her because they told her that if she said all that, they would release her and in the end they didn’t release anyone.”
Salem Cuba “did two interviews,” said his mother. “The first was the one they published and the second was the one she made normal, the real one.” He reported that they showed her daughter on television and “they did not call her lawyer to be with her.”
Last March, the woman informed Cuban journalist Mónica Baró, who lives in the United States, that the accusation against her daughter changed from “propaganda against the constitutional order” to “incitement to commit a crime,” one of the crimes applied to many. of the protesters on July 11, 2021.
Although Martínez Pérez has no criminal record, the Prosecutor’s Office has insisted on maintaining the “precautionary measure of provisional detention.”
Salem Cuba is accused of “collecting several bottles” to make “Molotov cocktails” in the Las Guásimas store, located 100 meters from his house, but his accusers clarify that the bottles were not taken.
