Amnesty International Calls For Release Of Cuban Opponent Eduardo Cardet

Amnesty International Calls For Release Of Cuban Opponent Eduardo Cardet
/ EFE, 14ymedio

EFE (via 14ymedio), Havana, 1 Februday 2017 — The global
organization Amnesty International on Tuesday called for the “immediate
and unconditional” release of Cuban dissident Eduardo Cardet, who has
been detained for two months accused of the crime of assault.

Amnesty International believes that Cardet, the national coordinator of
the illegal Christian Liberation Movement (MCL), is a prisoner of
conscience who is imprisoned “solely for the peaceful exercise of his
right to freedom of expression,” according to a statement EFE had access to.

He also says that Cardet was violently arrested when he returned from
visiting his mother on November 30, five days after Fidel Castro’s
death, and since then has been held in a prison in the eastern province
of Holguin.

Cardet, according to his wife, Yaimaris Vecino, cited by Amnesty
International, is accused of attacking an agent of the authority, so
that the prosecution could seek a three-year prison sentence.

In the middle of this month, Amnesty International also called for the
release of Cuban dissident graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado, known as El
Sexto (The Sixth), also considered a prisoner of conscience who was
imprisoned without trial in the high security Combinado del Este in Havana.

El Sexto was released without charge on January 21 after spending nearly
two months in prison for having written the phrase “He’s gone” on a wall
of the Habana Libre hotel in the capital on November 26, 2016, after the
death of Fidel Castro.

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