Was an extrajudicial killing by Cuban state security covered up as a crime of passion?
Yunisledy Lopez Rodriguez was just 23 years old, the mother of two small children and she lived in Vista Alegre, in the Municipality of Majabiquoa in Las Tunas, Cuba.
Yunisledy had suffered harassment, state security agents had wanted to evict her and her children from their home for her activism in the Civics and Truth movement.
She found out that her then current boyfriend "Ruber" had been given the order to kill Sirley Avila Leon. Yunisledy immediately informed Sirley Avila Leon of the danger and on May 21, 2014 when Sirley's home was set on fire formally complained to the police. She reported that her partner had told her that he would murder Sirley and that through the above action had attempted to carry it out. The police never made a pronouncement on the matter and did nothing. Afterwards "Ruber" threatened Yunisledy and told her that if she did not want to be killed that she should join him in Camaguey where he had been given the possibility to work as a "cuenta propista" as a reward for carrying out his murder attempt against Sirley Avila Leon and to give the impression that he was in a prison elsewhere.
She denounces the new threat to the police and no action taken against him and he went away. After two months approximately September 20-21, 2014 the father of her young son appears at her home and tells her that he'll kill her. But instead rapes her in front of her children and leaves.
Immediately she went to the police and made a complaint because was supposedly a prison escapee, but the police take no action. They tell her not to worry that he is already back in prison. Yunisledy calls Sirley on September 24, 2014 and tells her that they both knew why he was being sent to kill her. Yunisledy asks Sirley to please care for her children because she had no police protection.
On September 26, 2014 while preparing food for her children the individual known as "El Tejon" entered the house and stabbed her 18 times in front of her two children. This was done to give the appearance of a crime of passion.
Cuban human rights defender, Sirley Avila Leon, was the target of a brutal machete attack on May 24, 2015 that she miraculously survived in order to provide the information about what happened to this young women.
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| Yunisledy Lopez Rodriguez: Brutally murdered at age 23 |
Yunisledy had suffered harassment, state security agents had wanted to evict her and her children from their home for her activism in the Civics and Truth movement.
She found out that her then current boyfriend "Ruber" had been given the order to kill Sirley Avila Leon. Yunisledy immediately informed Sirley Avila Leon of the danger and on May 21, 2014 when Sirley's home was set on fire formally complained to the police. She reported that her partner had told her that he would murder Sirley and that through the above action had attempted to carry it out. The police never made a pronouncement on the matter and did nothing. Afterwards "Ruber" threatened Yunisledy and told her that if she did not want to be killed that she should join him in Camaguey where he had been given the possibility to work as a "cuenta propista" as a reward for carrying out his murder attempt against Sirley Avila Leon and to give the impression that he was in a prison elsewhere.
She denounces the new threat to the police and no action taken against him and he went away. After two months approximately September 20-21, 2014 the father of her young son appears at her home and tells her that he'll kill her. But instead rapes her in front of her children and leaves.
Immediately she went to the police and made a complaint because was supposedly a prison escapee, but the police take no action. They tell her not to worry that he is already back in prison. Yunisledy calls Sirley on September 24, 2014 and tells her that they both knew why he was being sent to kill her. Yunisledy asks Sirley to please care for her children because she had no police protection.
On September 26, 2014 while preparing food for her children the individual known as "El Tejon" entered the house and stabbed her 18 times in front of her two children. This was done to give the appearance of a crime of passion.
Cuban human rights defender, Sirley Avila Leon, was the target of a brutal machete attack on May 24, 2015 that she miraculously survived in order to provide the information about what happened to this young women.
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