Cuban protester escapes to the U.S. after being sentenced to 5 years in prison
After he was sentenced by the communist Castro dictatorship to 5 years of hard labor for peacefully protesting on July 11, Yoel Sosa Gomez managed to escape Cuba and make it to the U.S.
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Cuban escapes to the U.S. and avoids a 5-year sentence for protesting on July 11
Cuban Yoel Sosa Gomez, one of the July 11 protestors put on trial in Mayabeque, has escaped the country in a raft and now is in the process of obtaining political asylum in the U.S.
The 34-year-old man was put on trial in Cuba over the anti-government protests that took place last year and sentenced to five years of hard labor for the crimes of public disorder and contempt, according documents obtained by the legal assistance NGO Cubalex.
In a statement on America TeVe, the protester said he decided to flee Cuba by sea and escape the prison sentence imposed on him. By doing so, he avoids a 5-year prison sentence handed down on March 4.
“It’s difficult, I have a five-year-old daughter that asks for me every day. When I speak with her she tells me ‘daddy, I want you to be here,’ and the only way her mother can console her is to say ‘daddy cant’ come over, if he does, he’ll be put in prison,’” he explained with tears in his eyes......
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We are still, despite the fascist currently in control, the light on the hill, the last bastion of freedom. This man’s plight sounds familiar here though, Jan. 6 prisoners.
