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Monday, May 2, 2005
Twenty-three Cubans found guilty of storming the Mexican Embassy in 2002 were sentenced to prison for up to 18 years. The men allegedly crashed a stolen bus through the gates of the Mexican Embassy in Havana amid a wave of rumors that the mission was issuing visas to all Cubans who showed up.
Elizardo Sanchez, of the non-governmental Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation, said the trial was held in December and sentences announced in recent days.
According to Sanchez the lightest sentence was three years. Only one person, alleged ringleader Pedro Plasencia Achon, received the maximum sentence of 18 years.
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