Lawyer asks Cuban Television to put an end to reports by Humberto López

the lawyer of Cubalex Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo asked the Cuban television to put an end to the presenter’s reports Humberto Lopezin which he assumes the functions of jurist and interpreter of the law to threaten the cuban activists and intimidate the population.

“The highest authorities of Cuban Television, especially those of the Informative System, should not continue to give journalist Humberto López the space of Cubavisión’s Star Newscast, so that he uses that means of mass dissemination in the materialization of his obviously careerist purposes,” he demanded. the lawyer last Thursday through his social networks.

Screenshot Facebook / Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo

In an extensive publication, Ferrer Tamayo made a list of the bad practices committed by the presenter in supposedly informative spaces, in which López makes value judgments about alleged criminal acts, which have not been tried or sentenced, in order to create states of opinion contrary to the demands of the activists of Cuban civil society.

“They should be limited exclusively to the fact. [Los periodistas] they cannot ensure that a defendant or defendant is guilty if a conviction has not been issued against him and that it has become firm”, the jurist reminded the authorities of the official media.

Likewise, he denounced as contrary to the law López’s custom of “naming the defendant or defendant as: murderer, rapist, aberrated, indecent, unscrupulous, vandal”, a practice in which “many political and government authorities have also incurred, including the president of the nation.

If they incur in these practices, the journalists would be breaking “the principle of the presumption of innocence and the human right to the honor of that personUntil then, he should be considered innocent.”

“In addition, it negatively influences a criminal process in progress, when what is known as a ‘parallel trial’ occurs, which violates due process”, warned Ferrer Tamayo.

López, who regularly threatens activists who exercise their right to free expression, is fond of predicting what sentences may befall them for alleged crimes that have not been proven and, on occasion, not even investigated.

Journalists have no judging powerpower that Humberto López has abrogated to predict the result of a legal process in progress or that could be launched in the future, “said the lawyer.

Regarding the self-incriminating videos that López presents in his spaces -such as those of the recent broadcast of the program cuban reasonsin which four demonstrators from the Nuevitas protests “confessed” to having been used by Cuban exiles-, the lawyer wondered what legal precept protects the authorities to facilitate the presenter “those materials so that he makes them public and disseminates them through of Cuban Television.

The height of these bad practices and absolute lack of professional ethics is perceived by Ferrer Tamayo in the open threats launched by the presenter to Cubans who protest or claim rights and freedoms that the regime he serves denies citizens.

The broadcast of the Newscast on October 5 is an example of this, according to the lawyer. In her, López threatened to apply articles of the recently approved Penal Code“such as Public Disorders (article 263.1), or crimes against the integral development of minors (article 402)”.

In addition, the presenter warned that the aggravating circumstances of criminal responsibility provided for in article 80.1 of the aforementioned regulatory body are applicable to the people who participate in the protests.

For Ferrer Tamayo, López’s assertions are not true. Despite his training in Law, the presenter wields against the Cuban demonstrators a Penal Code that has not entered into force.

“The new Penal Code is not applicable to those people against whom he has launched his threats, since the aforementioned Penal Code -in its second final provision- says that it will enter into force 90 days after its publication, that is to say the December 1, 2022. And retroactivity for criminal law is only applicable when it favors the defendant and this is not the case.”, indicated the lawyer.

Advocate for activists like Tania Bruguera either Maykel OsorboFerrer Tamayo presented at the end of November 2020 a complaint against the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel for the crime of “propagation of epidemics”by summoning and appearing at the Trillo park in Havana to officiate a revolutionary reaffirmation tangana, in full confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A month later, The Cuban Attorney General’s Office exonerated the leader of the so-called “continuity” despite the fact that, after seeing the photos and videos, the prosecutor Jose Luis Reyes Blanco He admitted that the reported facts were true.

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Lawyer asks Cuban Television to put an end to reports by Humberto López