jennifer mccoy is professor of political science at georgia state university, and we appreciate your being on al jazeera mom. thank you very much indeed. thank you. he was, attorney general says 59 people who to part an anti government protests, have been prosecuted. their actions were described as disturbances and charges included public disorder and causing non serious injuries. rights groups say more than 600 people were detained during and since the july 11th demonstrations, that's when thousands of cubans took to the streets, demanding political change, and protesting against poor economic conditions. read lindsey, as a journalist based in cuba with the media, organization, belly of the beast. he says that the government is responding to criticism. the trials have not been fair. there was a pushback against what is really been the big story of the international news media. and definitely a been all of our social media in recent weeks, which is that number of people detain, which as you mentioned, may, may be over 600, according to les compile, by a list compiled by journalist an

jennifer mccoy is the professor political science at georgia state university. he says, president ortega has been repressing competition ahead of that vote. this cannot possibly be a an honest and competitive election when most of the opposition candidates are either under house arrest or being detained. some of them with no contact with lawyers or their families. so almost disappeared. so it's unclear what, what it, what would it clearly does show is how insecure daniel or take it is about competition, but also help brazen. this is to, to wipe out the opposition before an election scheduled for november. he has done very and democratic things, including having the constitution change to allow his repeated reelections repressing protests, especially in 2018 with very harsh repression and relying on on a harsh reaction to any kind of descent or protest against his regime over the last couple of years so he's grown increasingly authoritarian ah, there and these, that help stories. demonstrators have taken to the streets in several brazilian cities calling from the