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Five and nine years in prison for critics of the Cuban dictatorship.


Cuban artists and anti-dictatorship activists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Osorbo have been sentenced to several years in prison.

Cuban artists and anti-dictatorship activists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Osorbo have been sentenced to several years in prison. The performance artist Alcántara has five years in prison, the rapper Maykel even nine years, as the Cuban Attorney General announced on Friday.

Alcántara was reportedly convicted of insulting patriotic symbols, contempt of court and disturbing public order, Osorbo, among other things, for assault.

Prosecutors had asked for prison terms of seven and ten years for the two. Western journalists and diplomats were denied access to the Havana trial.

Alcántara is one of the leaders of the anti-dictatorship artist collective San Isidro (MSI). He was arrested last July during a demonstration attended by thousands and is being held in a high-security prison.

Osorbo has been in jail on similar charges since May last year. He co-authored the song "Patria y vida," which has become an anthem for anti-dictatorship demonstrations in Cuba and won a Latin Grammy.

Source: Stern
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