The Trump administration is sanctioning four Cuban judicial officials over their alleged roles in the detention of a political dissident in 2020, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday.
Rubio named the four individuals as prosecutor Yanaisa Matos Legrá and judges Gladys Maria Padrón Canals, Maria Elena Fornari Conde, and Juan Sosa Orama.
He said the four were being sanctioned by the State Department due to a “gross violation of human rights,” namely the “arbitrary detention” of Cuban dissident, Luis Robles Elizástigui.
All four of the sanctioned individuals work at the People’s Provincial Court of Havana, where they oversaw the prosecution, conviction, and sentencing of Robles Elizástigui on behalf of the Cuban regime, Rubio said….