Activist taken to the court and sentenced for protesting against imprisonment of his colleague

In the morning hours, an activist from the Cuban Patriotic Union (UNPACU), Mario Antonio Roman Linares, was detained by joint forces of the secret police and National Revolutionary Police (PNR) when he was expressing his protest against a house search and an imprisonment of one of the UNPACU activists, Raúl Martínez Caraballo. Linares was detained and driven in a patrol car to the State Security office located in the highway to Salvador, a place more known as "Operaciones". He was kept in detention for 72 hours, being constantly interrogated by the officials. They accused him of being responsible for distributing anti-government leaflets which had appeared in the city of Guatánamo during previous months. Based on a summary trial held against Linares, he was arrested in the Provincial Prison of Guantánamo. Right now, he is serving his 8-year sentence in this prison, also known as "Combinado de Guantánamo".