Yosandri Mulet Almarares is More 1,110 Political prisoners identified in Communist Cuba. Died He died by suicide on Monday after attempting to do so last week, multiple media outlets specializing in Cuba reported.
Murret Almarares was 38 years old at the time of his death. Sentenced He faces a 10-year prison sentence in December 2022 along with seven other men on charges of “sedition” for taking part in Cuba's historic anti-Communist protests on July 11, 2021. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans took to the streets that day to demand an end to more than 60 years of Communist rule.
Mulet Almarares was sentenced for taking part in local protests in La Guinera, a poor neighborhood in the Havana suburb of Arroyo Naranjo. At the time, Cuban prosecutors accused him of “following invitations repeatedly circulated through social networks that incited Cubans to demonstrate violently in different places at the same time and to defy the authority of Cuban state institutions, with the aim of changing the socialist order.”
In addition to serving a 10-year prison sentence, Muret Almarares was reportedly held in slavery by authorities in the Castro regime.
Martí Noticias, a US media outlet specializing in Cuba, reported on Monday that, citing family members, Mulet Almarares jumped off Calabazar Bridge near his Havana home on Friday and then returned from parole to prison where he was engaged in forced labor. The suspect was transferred to the intensive care unit of Havana's Julio Trigo Hospital, where he remained in critical condition for three days before dying of his injuries on Monday.
Hidalmis Salazar Gonzalez, the prisoner's aunt-in-law, told Martí Noticias newspaper that Mulet Almarares' father had accompanied him on the return journey to the prison on Friday, but became distracted and continued walking.
“My husband went looking for our son and couldn't find him. So he turned towards the house to see if he was here and he wasn't there. Then he realized he had gone home and he realized that the boy who jumped off the bridge was him,” she said.
“But he was already thinking about killing himself. He didn't want to go to jail. He was very upset and left behind snacks and other things he should have taken.”
Mulet Almarares' relatives told Martí Noticias that he suffered from mental illness and had attempted suicide in June 2022 at the Combinado del Este prison where he was then incarcerated. Combinado del Este Notorious A torture center for dissidents.
The family explained that the Castro regime's judicial authorities denied parole to Mulet Almarares after his suicide attempt in June 2022, ordering his transfer instead to the “lighter” Toledo forced labor camp in the city of Marianao, where he was granted a short stay at home.
Mulet Almarares' parents, Maria Antonia Almarares and Roberto Mulet, filed a second application for parole in recent months, but Cuban prosecutors rejected it too, based on criteria set by the Havana regime's Forensic Medicine Institute.
“The forensic scientist said he was fit to go to prison,” the prisoner's aunt said.
Salazar Gonzalez said many members of Castro's security forces were present at Julio Trigo hospital after Mulet Almarares was admitted, adding: “They were waiting for the parole order to arrive so they could report his death, but he was already dead.”
The Cuban Prison Documentation Center (CDPC), a non-governmental organization, Warned Last week, the Cuban government announced that it had registered several cases of Cuban political prisoners who, in despair over the Castro regime's lack of response to their demands for justice and respect for their human rights, expressed suicidal thoughts or attempted suicide during 2024.
CDPC recently Report Nieves Morejon prison has recorded the suicide of an unidentified 31-year-old inmate this year, as well as 16 other suicide attempts and cases of self-harm.
In April, 22-year-old Cuban Fray Pascual Claro Valladares attempted suicide after being sentenced to 10 years in prison for “sedition” by a Castro regime court for taking part in a series of peaceful protests in the town of Nuevitas in August 2022. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Granted The Commission took precautionary measures against Claro Valladares on June 30, determining that “his right to life, personal dignity and health in Cuba is at risk of irreparable harm.”
Mayelin Rodriguez Prado, a 22-year-old woman, Sentenced Earlier this year, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for filming a peaceful Nuevitas protest and distributing the footage on social media. Showed Cuban police officers beat Cuban citizen Jose Armando Torrente and three 11-year-old girls, including Torrente's daughter.
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