{"id":250722,"date":"2022-03-23T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=250722"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:46:53","slug":"open-letter-from-cuban-intellectuals-demands-release-of-j11-12-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/open-letter-from-cuban-intellectuals-demands-release-of-j11-12-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter from Cuban intellectuals demands release of J11\/12 prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 30 Cuban intellectuals demanded this Monday the release of the prisoners for the <\/span>July 11 protests<\/span><\/a>, after the <\/span>\u201cexemplifying\u201d sentences of 127 of those involved were made known<\/span><\/a>. The document seeks the attention of academics and artists, \u201cwithout ideological exemptions,\u201d and invites them to join the demand.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a general intellectual duty of academics and artists, at any time and in any society, to condemn violence and arbitrariness without double standards; without ideological exemptions or subterfuges of realpolitik,\u201d they affirm in an open letter called: \u201cManifesto against silence, for justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The document is endorsed by renowned names in Cuban arts and sciences, both inside and outside the country, such as Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Pedro Monreal, Fernando P\u00e9rez Vald\u00e9s, Tania Bruguera, Mauricio de Miranda, Alex Fleites, Armando Chaguaceda, Carolina Barrero, Omar Everleny P\u00e9rez Villanueva and Sandra Ceballos.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe positions of dissimulation, silence or complacency, instead of defending vulnerable citizens and making the authorities rectify, will only perpetuate and amplify the abuses and conflicts. It will turn each one of us, people of ideas and words, into accomplices, conscious or hidden, of violence and injustice,\u201d they affirm. <\/span>La Joven Cuba<\/span><\/i><\/a> published the Manifesto this Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The signatories propose that after a general release there be a debate on how to proportionally define and in accordance with the law the responsibilities for the violence that occurred on July 11, but with a maxim: \u201cThe law cannot subordinate justice.\u201d They also consider that \u201cit is a humanist duty\u201d to \u201caccompany the victims of State violence\u201d because these protests were \u201ca social outbreak expressed through civil disobedience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem of sedition<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n