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Jose marti por rolando rodríguez12/28/2022 ![]() ![]() It is not found in the Granma archives, nor in the collection of the Revista Cubana de Derecho. Then, this has not been a frequent figure in the courts or in the official discourse. In 1999, Vladimiro Roca Antúnez, René Gómez Manzano, Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello and Félix Bonne Carcassés were sentenced between three and five years on charges of sedition. 5Īfter 1959, Huber Matos was sentenced to 20 years in prison, for sedition. In 1953 the plotting military was tried for sedition. 4Īfter the Batista coup d’état, sedition appeared, with “relative frequency,” in the Emergency Court of Havana, or as a related crime to condemn revolutionaries. 2 In a rigged trial against the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC), its leaders were tried (1910) “because their propaganda was not only illegal but also seditious.” 3 Once the PIC had been suppressed in 1912, four farmers from Güines went to prison for said crime. government (1898) to combat the nascent Cuban labor movement. The word “seditious” was used by the intervening U.S. My interest here is to discuss the relevance and applicability of the sedition concept, in the terms of the Cuban Penal Code and politics, with respect to the J11 processes. I will refer to three new descrptions that appeared in that note: “in a tumultuous manner,” “serious disturbance of public order,” and “deliberate purpose of subverting the constitutional order.” Before doing so, I will briefly mention the history of the crime of sedition in Cuba, to better understand the problems of its appearance in this scenario. Until January 24, 2022, for more than six months after J11, Granma did not mention the concept of “sedition.” In addition, in the recent statement of the Prosecutor’s Office there are novelties regarding what Granma newspaper itself published on the subject in July 2021. The Attorney General’s Office declared a total of 790 prosecuted for J11, without specifying how many would be charged for this cause. In contrast, at least 158 people, according to the Justicia 11 website, have been or are being charged with sedition. Specifically, public disorder, attack, resistance, contempt and disobedience were identified. On July 11 (J11), 2021, the largest protests since 1959 in the country took place in Cuba four days after that day, Granma newspaper assured that the behavior committed that day typified common crimes. ![]()
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