UNPACU activist detained and beaten



He was conducting a meeting in the cell Ramón García Correoso with activists when they are attacked by the Rapid Response Brigade commanded by the political police. After breaking into the home he was beaten and taken on a bus and left 30 miles outside of town where a group organized by the political police was waiting with sticks, stones, and jets of water that almost drown him .he has been threatened with death and prison time for continuing his activism within UNPACU.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Personal freedom
Personal security and integrity
Right not to be tortured
Right not to be submitted to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of opinion and expression
Right to seek, receive and impart information
Right to freedom of movement and transit
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Right to be informed of the reasons for one's detention, at the moment of detention, and to be noticed, without delay, of the accusations
Economic and Social Rights
Right to health
Perpetrator
Police
State security agents
Ministry of the Interior
Political police
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