Rubio: State Department to Sanction 4 Cuban Officials for Roles in Jailing Political Dissident

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The four judicial officials are being sanctioned due to a โ€˜gross violation of human rights.โ€™

The Trump administration is sanctioning four Cuban judicial officials over their alleged roles in the detention of a political dissident in 2020, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday.

Rubio named the four individuals as prosecutor Yanaisa Matos Legrรก and judges Gladys Maria Padrรณn Canals, Maria Elena Fornari Conde, and Juan Sosa Orama.

He said the four were being sanctioned by the State Department due to a โ€œgross violation of human rights,โ€ namely the โ€œarbitrary detentionโ€ of Cuban dissident, Luis Robles Elizรกstigui.

All four of the sanctioned individuals work at the Peopleโ€™s Provincial Court of Havana, where they oversaw the prosecution, conviction, and sentencing of Robles Elizรกstigui on behalf of the Cuban regime, Rubio said.

As a result of the sanctions, the individuals and their families are banned from entering the United States, he stated.

โ€œJudges and prosecutors who are agents of the regime, not of an independent judiciary, play a critical role in these arbitrary detentions and prosecutions,โ€ Rubio said in a statement. โ€œThey are responsible for the sham legal processes that unjustly target, convict, and sentence individuals for peaceful expressions and activism.โ€

Robles Elizรกstigui was arrested while protesting in Cubaโ€™s capital city of Havana in December 2020 while holding a sign that read โ€œLibertyโ€ and โ€œNo more Repression.โ€

He was charged with โ€œdisobedienceโ€ and โ€œenemy propaganda,โ€ according to his family and rights groups.

Robles was released from jail in January as part of a Biden administration deal brokered by the Vatican.

Rubio, who is the son of Cuban immigrants, said the sanctions against the four individuals are further proof that the Trump administration is โ€œcommitted to holding accountable Cuban regime officials involved in violating human rights.โ€

โ€œWe continue to use all available tools to stand up for the human rights of the Cuban people and encourage our allies and partners to do the same,โ€ he said.

Rubio Condemns Re-arrests of Political Prisoners

Rubio also drew attention to the recent re-arrests of political prisoners who he said are being returned to jail on โ€œfrivolous grounds,โ€ including high-profile human rights activist Josรฉ Daniel Ferrer, who founded an opposition group called the National Patriotic Union, or Unpacu, in 2011.

Byย Katabella Roberts

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