The communist Castro dictatorship arrested Luis Andres Dominguez Sardiñas, a human rights activist and former political prisoner, and has sentenced him to 3 years in the gulag for the possession of rubber bands. According to the Cuban regime, those rubber bands were going to be incorporated into slingshots that present a threat to national security.
Via CiberCuba (my translation):
The Provincial People’s Court of Havana sentenced Cuban activist and former political prisoner Luis Andrés Domínguez Sardiñas to three years in prison for the crime of “other acts against the security of the State.”
In statements to the news portal Cubanet, the convicted individual said he was outraged and defended his innocence. He explained that during the trial, his lawyer refuted all the arguments presented by the Prosecution.
He was notified of the sentence last Saturday by his attorney, who informed him about the possibility of appealing the decision.
This is the sixth time that Domínguez Sardiñas has been sent to prison for political reasons.
This time, State Security detained him and opened a case after obtaining information that he would receive a package from abroad with rubber bands to make “sling shots” and confront the Police, as the accused himself recounted.
How weak and vulnerable must the communist Castro dictatorship be feeling right now that it fears it can be toppled from power with a slingshot?