Ernesto Borges, a former Cuban interior ministry official, was released on Thursday in Havana, after 27 years of incarceration on the charges of “attempted espionage” in favor of the United States, he told the French Agency. “I am very excited, happy, I feel good, even though I underwent a waterfall surgery in both eyes,” Ernesto Borges said during a video call. The former Cuban overseas officer was convicted in 1999 by a military court to serve 30 years in prison for “attempted espionage” for trying to deliver classified documents to US diplomats in Havana. He was released after he was sentenced to 27 years of his sentence after his reductions. “I was sentenced to 30 years (imprisonment) as if I had committed the crime” of espionage, “said Mr Borges, who complains that he had been in isolation 11 years. The former officer, who had visited Cuban Cardinal in 2012 at the time, Haime Ortega, at Combinado del Este, the largest prison on the island, assured AFP that he has no […]
Source: News Beast
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