Activist sentenced to three years in jail after criticising Fidel Castro

Eduardo Cardet was arrested in November 2016, days after the death of Fidel Castro. During an interview with Madrid-based radio station esRadio, aired two days before the arrest, Eduardo Cardet described the mourning in Cuba following the death of Fidel Castro as imposed, and said: “Castro was a very controversial man, very much hated and rejected by our people.” Because of that, the leader of the Christian pro-democracy movement Cardet was sentenced on 20 March, 2017, to 3 years of imprisonment. The day of the trial, the Executive Director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer stated: “So long as the Castro government jails Eduardo Cardet, a prisoner of conscience, we call for the complete removal of Cuba from this Council.” Eduardo left the prison on May 4, 2019 and was able to reunite with his family, however, the charges have not been withdrawn and he is on probation for the time being and until the end of his sentence in September 2019.