Religiosos ejecutados en Cuba

CIPRIANO, 21 años, EUGENIO, 25 años, y VENTURA, 19 años, GARCIA –MARIN THOMPSON.

Fusilados el 2-1-1981 en la prisión de la Cabaña, La Habana. Habían forzado la puerta de la embajada del Vaticano en la Habana, pidiendo asilo. Un equipo elite de Tropas Especiales asaltó la embajada. Fueron sentenciados a muerte en un proceso sumarísimo.



Three brothers executed, Jan. 2, 1981 at La Cabaña Fortress, Havana .

Cipriano (Age 21), Eugenio (Age 25), and Ventura (Age 19) García-Marín Thompson.

The three GarcÍa-Marín brothers were Jehova's Witnesses, who are strongly persecuted in Cuba . At least one had served political imprisonment. They had received several warnings under Cuba 's "dangerousness" law and had been desperately seeking refuge.



On December 3, 1980 . together with two men and three women, they pushed their way into the Vatican Embassy ("Nunciatura") in Havana , requesting asylum. Hours later, a team of the Interior Ministry's Elite Special Troops burst into the complex and captured them. Accused

of killing a Cuban worker at the embassy, they were told they had been tried and sentenced to death. The others, including relatives who were not part of the raid, were sentenced to prison terms of 15 to 25 years, but released some years early after the case received international attention.



Four weeks later, the brother were taken from their prison cells in the middle of the night and presumably executed. The mother served several years in political prison and died in 1992 still clamoring for her sons' bones.



Cuban authorities sustain the brothers were armed with a pistol, which witnesses deny. The embassy worker allegedly killed in the raid was an employee of the Cuban government agency Cubalse and reported to have been an agent. Subsequent investigations revealed he was living in Havana , having staged his injuries with fake blood to play his part in the raid.