Der Unterstützungsfilm von und für Cubainformación mit José Manzaneda. Diesmal das spanische Original mit englischen Untertiteln!
Sie werden am 15.2. eine Verhandlung haben, weil ein hardliner/contra in Spanien gegen sie klagt wegen der Benutzung eines Wortes. Er fordert ca. 60.000€ Strafe und mehrere Monate Gefängnis für José. Siehe dazu unsere  PM mit mehr Infos dazu.
Die Gerichtskosten sind sehr hoch. und es ist dringend, Cubainformación zu unterstützen und etwas zu spenden!

Hi everyone, here is a video with English subtitles we have added to one that Cuba informacion produced. Please help to spread the word and the defence fund crowdfunder link
Video- https://youtu.be/vvPxtvhypjc [9]

Crowdfunder link for donatons ¡No a la criminalización del periodismo crítico de Cubainformación y de la solidaridad de Euskadi-Cuba! (goteo.org) [2]

Solidarity 1c4cuba

On 04/02/2024 21:00 GMT 1c4 Cuba wrote:

Dear comrades and friends of Cuba

Cuba Informacion and the Euskadi-Cuba Association who are under
attack for reporting on counter-revolutionary groups slandering Cuba’s
medical solidarity brigades. This law-fare trial is very serious and
could result in 6 years imprisonment of Jose Manzaneda, the website’s
coordinator, plus a 50,000 Euro fine. The trial is on 15 February.
There are two things that you can do to help:

DONATE TO THE LEGAL DEFENCE FUND

* Either by becoming a member of Cubainformación (or by making an
extra one-off contribution if you are already one) through this
module:
_https://www.cubainformacion.tv/campaigns/yotambiensoyci/donativo_ [1]
* OR by participating in the crowdfunding campaign to collect funds
for legal expenses on the Goteo platform [2].

SIGN THE LETTER OF SUPPORT
If you belong to an organisation please write to
to add your organisation’s name to support
Cuba Informacion in their denunciation of this ‚lawfare‘

For more information please see the auto-translated summary below
Video and coverage (Spanish) here Cubainformación – Article:
Cubainformación denounced in Brussels media-judicial persecution that
aims to imprison its coordinator and close the media outlet
(cubainformacion.tv) [3]
and links to full information and documents (in Spanish) here
Cubainformación – Article: Judicial persecution against
Cubainformación and Euskadi-Cuba (all materials) (cubainformacion.tv)
[4]

IMPRISON THE CRITICAL JOURNALISM OF CUBAINFORMACIÓN AND THE
SOLIDARITY COOPERATION OF EUSKADI-CUBA?

Cubainformación

In mid-February, in Madrid, the trial will be held against José
Manzaneda, coordinator of the media outlet Cubainformación, and
against the legal representation of the Euskadi-Cuba association, an
entity that, until 2020, held the ownership of the
www.cubainformacion.tv [5] domain, due to a criminal complaint for
libel, slander and hate crime, filed by the president of the
„anti-Castro“ organization PrisonersDefenders. which requests a
sentence of six years in prison and compensation of 50 thousand euros,
for the content of the report „Creating a health crisis in Cuba:
objective of the war against its medical cooperation [6]“.

Cubainformación published this work in October 2020. In it, he
described the work of PRISONERS DEFENDERS, IN COORDINATION WITH THE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, IN THE ATTEMPT TO DESTROY CUBA’S MEDICAL
SOLIDARITY COOPERATION AGREEMENTS IN numerous countries. One of the
objectives, the report explains, would be to apply the economic
blockade against the island in the health field, CUTTING OFF THE
INCOME THAT ITS MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH OBTAINS FROM MEDICAL
AGREEMENTS in some nations – only in some, since, in the poorest,
Havana assumes all the expenses of cooperation – and that serve to
sustain, in a scenario of acute sanctions from Washington, part of the
island’s internal public health system. THE CURRENT SHORTAGE OF
MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES IN CUBA WOULD BE A DIRECT CAUSE OF
this.

_BLOCKADE AGAINST CUBA: AN ACT OF WAR_

Numerous legal and academic sources describe the U.S. blockade
against Cuba as an „act of war.“ In November 2023, in Brussels, a
SYMBOLIC INTERNATIONAL COURT DESCRIBED THIS BLOCKADE, IN ITS VERDICT,
AS A „CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY“ that „has already caused, directly and
indirectly, the loss of numerous human lives“.

Because of his direct participation in the blockade, because of his
public justification in the media and because of his lobbying work in
favor of its extension, through „sanctions“, to countries of the
European Union, the WORK AFFIRMED, IN ITS FIRST VERSION, THAT THE
PRESIDENT OF THE PD IS, „LIKE MARCO RUBIO AND DONALD TRUMP, A WAR
CRIMINAL.“

ALFRED-MAURICE DE ZAYAS, WHO WAS AN INDEPENDENT EXPERT of the United
Nations Human Rights Council, says that those who carry out this
blockade, whether from the US government or from the organizations
that support it, are „WAR CRIMINALS“, IN THE ABSENCE OF „A TRUE
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT“ to judge their crimes.

Whoever reads or listens to the work understands that the expression
is journalistic hyperbole referring to „criminals of the war against
medical cooperation“ or „of the economic war“ against Cuba, and not of
a declared military war. In any case, the expression, alien to the
usual, more measured style of the medium, was withdrawn a few days
later, in one of the usual editorial revisions. However, to our
surprise, a WEEK LATER, WE RECEIVED A BUROFAX ANNOUNCING THE BEGINNING
OF THE LAWSUIT, CENTERED ON THAT PHRASE.

_EUROPEAN FUNDS TO „DESTABILISE EUROPE AND SPAIN“_

Once the complaint was admitted, media outlets such as ABC, El Correo
or El Nuevo Herald published parts of a press release by Prisoners
Defenders, which stated, among other nonsense, that THE EUSKADI-CUBA
NGO RECEIVES „EUROPEAN FUNDS (…) TO UNDERMINE INSTITUTIONS AND
DESTABILIZE (…) EUROPE AND SPAIN.“ No further comment.

This lawsuit attacks an organization and a media outlet of the
International Movement of Solidarity with Cuba, seeking to
economically hurt both the development cooperation developed by
Euskadi-Cuba and, mainly, to censor the critical and uncomfortable
voice of Cubainformación.

But they’re not going to get it. WE WILL CONTINUE TO DENOUNCE THE
BLOCKADE AGAINST CUBA AS A WAR CRIME and to support the Cuban people
with all possible solidarity. A solidarity that Cubainformación and
Euskadi-Cuba will need in the coming months, in the face of what, in
our opinion, is an attack on the work of cooperation and freedom of
the press.

NOTE FROM DEFENSE LAWYER ENDIKA ZULUETA REGARDING THE UPCOMING TRIAL
AGAINST FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN MADRID

Endika Zulueta

On October 5, 2020, on the WEBSITE WWW.CUBAINFORMACION.TV [5] (owned
at the time by the Euskadi-Cuba Association), the JOURNALIST JOSÉ
MANZANEDA published an article entitled _“Creating a health crisis in
Cuba, objective of the WAR AGAINST ITS MEDICAL COOPERATION“, in_ which
article, among other considerations, he pointed out the following:
_“Javier Larrondo, a member of one of the families of the Cuban
bourgeoisie protected by the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, is,
like Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, a war criminal. And as such it
should be treated”_(expression removed from the website on October
13, 2020).

Javier Larrondo is a person who is politically active in his capacity
as president of the NGO _“Prisoners Defender“,_ especially critical of
Cuba’s medical cooperation.

It is obvious that the expression „war _criminal“,_ in relation to
the title of the article, implies the „war _against medical
cooperation“ _being waged by the Cuban Government, and in no way
relates to war crimes committed in the context of an armed conflict,
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimen_de_guerra [7]

At the hearing in February, the PRIVATE PROSECUTION BROUGHT BY MR
LARRONDO REQUESTED THE SENTENCES OF 6 YEARS‘ imprisonment and a fine
of 26 months (15,600 euros) (13 months‘ imprisonment in the event of
non-payment) and compensation of 50,000 euros, considering both the
journalist and the legal representative of the website responsible for
crimes of serious insult, serious slander and incitement to hatred for
each of the accused.

BOTH THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE AND THE DEFENSE REQUEST ACQUITTAL
ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE FACTS DO NOT CONSTITUTE ANY CRIME.

CONSIDERATION OF PROSECUTION. – Not only does it seem obvious to us
that, like the M.F., the facts do not constitute any crime, but what
is a paradox is that the president of an Association that claims to
defend human rights intends not only to criminalize freedom of
expression, freedom of information and ideological freedom, but also
requests the imprisonment for more than 6 years of those who simply
legitimately disagree with a certain political practice in a newspaper
article.

Solidarity
Sam – on behalf of 1c4cuba
An attack on one is an attack on all! Defend the right to defend
Cuba!

#1c4Cuba campaign
Email:
Website: www.1c4Cuba.eu [8]

#1c4Cuba campaign
Email:
Website: www.1c4Cuba.eu [8]

Links:
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[1] https://www.cubainformacion.tv/campaigns/yotambiensoyci/donativo
[2] https://www.goteo.org/project/por-un-articulo-que-denuncia-el-bloqueo-de-eeuu-a–
[3] https://www.cubainformacion.tv/solidaridad/20231124/106268/106268-cubainformacion-denuncio-en-bruselas-persecucion-mediatico-judicial-que-pretende-encarcelar-a-su-coordinador-y-cerrar-el-medio
[4] https://www.cubainformacion.tv/especiales/20240126/107230/107230-persecucion-judicial-contra-cubainformacion-y-euskadi-cuba-todos-los-materiales
[5] http://www.cubainformacion.tv/
[6] https://www.cubainformacion.tv/especiales/20201005/88116/88116-crear-una-crisis-sanitaria-en-cuba-objetivo-de-la-guerra-contra-su-cooperacion-medica-italiano-francais-deutsch-english-portugues
[7] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimen_de_guerra
[8] http://www.1c4Cuba.eu
[9] https://youtu.be/vvPxtvhypjc