Young 9/11 participant detained in Bahamas deported to Cuba

Marco Antonio Alfonso BratoA 22-year-old man who fled Cuba in March 2023 to try to reach the United States, and who was detained in a prison in the Bahamas, unable to communicate with his family frequently, was deported to the island. , where he is detained at the Villa Marista prison.

Journalist Monica Barro reported this from her Facebook profile, where she reported that the young man has been in a Cuban state security prison since Saturday.

“Marco must have arrived in Cuba on Friday, when his mother, María Isabel Breto Freitas, got his call with the news, and yesterday she learned from another person that he had been transferred to Villa Marista,” he said.

He announced that the young man’s mother hoped to visit him this Monday, “as she has not seen him for over a year.”

The journalist added that Marconi “raised funds for legal proceedings in the Bahamas, a portion of which will be sent to his mother in Cuba.”

He regretted that the young man could not receive the international protection he requested despite his epilepsy.

Some activists organized a fundraiser to pay a lawyer to defend Alfonso Breto. to Bahamas authorities, while Baro himself reported via Facebook in January The Bahamas will process political asylum for July 11 protestors in Cuba.

A lawyer reported that the youth’s case was under investigation by the Department of Immigration and the United Nations Refugee Agency and while this evaluation was ongoing, the boy could not be sent back to his country.

In 2021, Alfonso Breto He was convicted of treason before a Cuban courtWhere they asked him for nine years in jail, which they later commuted to imprisonment with five years of correctional work.