Lázaro Marlon Mesa Romero
Lázaro Marlon Mesa Romero was released from prison in 2003, after completing a sentence on a charge of "disrespect," one of the catch-all "crimes" the Castro regime uses to target its opponents.
Seven years later, and only after Mesa, who was arrested last year during an anti-government protest, judicial authorities have advised him that he still owes the state six more months on his sentence.
"This is simply a manipulation by members of the political police to block me from going out on the streets to demand freedom for all political prisoners and respect for human rights, which are violated constantly in Cuba," Mesa said.
The normal rules of justice — like the ones that say prisoners are free once they pay their debt to society — do not apply in Cuba.
The rules serve those in power and not the other way around, as it should be. At any moment, the dictatorship can twist and torture the rules to get the outcome it wants.
In Cuba, the rules of "justice" are just another way at the Castro dictatorship oppresses and represses the people — especially those, like Mesa, with the courage to break the rules.
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