SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Former Villa Clara judge Melody González Pedraza, who served as president of the Popular Municipal Court of Encrucijada (Villa Clara) and was transferred to the Broward Transitional Center after requesting political asylum at the Tampa International Airport, faced this Wednesday to his first hearing.
As reported by lawyer Santiago Alpízar to Martí Newsin her first hearing in the US judicial system, Melody González Pedraza was instructed to master hearing on July 31, at 1:00 pm.
In that next appearance before the authorities, he will have to show Judge Barry S. Chait what the “merits” are to obtain political asylum, explained Alpízar, director of Cuba Demanda, an NGO focused on promoting “a transition to democracy in Cuba.” ”.
In the lawyer’s opinion, the judge does not have the necessary “merits” to be worthy of political asylum.
Alpízar added that González Pedraza has the right to due process and will have access to a lawyer to represent her. He also stated that the asylum case could take several months and its resolution could be in mid-November.
The former regime official arrived in the United States as a beneficiary of the parole humanitarian program launched by the Biden Administration. However, her entry into the country was denied by immigration authorities due to her alleged repressive history in Cuba and she was taken to the Broward Transitional Center.
Regime repressor
González Pedraza is known for having signed sentences of three and four years in prison against four young people under 30 years of age, accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a jeep and homes of the heads of the Police and State Security in the Villa Clara municipality of Encrucijada. , on November 18, 2022.
Young people who were convicted on the Island for participating in the historic anti-government demonstrations of July 2021 advocate that they be denied immigration benefits.
“She has done a lot of damage to the municipality of Encrucijada, in Villa Clara. I am one of her victims. In my hands I have the letter of freedom after having been imprisoned for going out on July 11 to demonstrate peacefully. “She sentenced me to prison for two years in prison,” Uziel García told Martí News.
The woman added that her son had been deprived of the privilege of going to the United States under the parole humanitarian due to the González Pedraza sentence.
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2024-06-14 17:38:48
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