The Biden administration banned five Cuban judges from entering the United States over their involvement in “unfair trials” of anti-government protesters who took to the streets on July 11 last year, the State Department said Friday.
“We took steps to suspend entry into the United States of five Cuban judges,” a State Department spokesperson told the Miami Herald. “These judges are connected to unfair trials and unjust sentencing and imprisonment of peaceful July 11, 2021, protesters.”
In a statement, the State Department cited a Reagan-era presidential proclamation that suspends “non immigrant entry” into the United States of officers and employees of the Cuban government as the legal basis for the visa restrictions. Before Friday’s announcement, the Biden administration had banned 17 Cuban officials from entering the country over their role in the detention and sentencing of July 11 protesters.
