Victim is arrested outside his home for going out during curfew and is subjected to physical and verbal torture in a police patrol car.



Osmel Adrián Rubio Santos went out on April 20, 2021 to the corner of his house thinking that the surveillance of his house had been removed. However, he was intercepted by the State Security and the National Revolutionary Police under the argument that he could not go out because there was a curfew given the Covid-19. The officers beat him and threatened to charge him with the crime of propagation of the epidemic, all this while they were putting him in patrol car 735 to take him to the Cotorro Municipality Police Station. However, due to the number of detainees in this station, he was sent to the San Miguel del Padrón Municipality Police Station, where he was not received because he had been detained as a counterrevolutionary and not for the propagation of the epidemic. Therefore, they return him to the initial station, where they do not put him in any cell, but leave him in the patrol car under the sun and handcuffed. Every so often he is checked, physically and verbally assaulted. During one of these visits to the patrol car, Osmel tries to explain his health condition and the treatment he must receive because of his diabetes, which is ignored. The victim tries to negotiate with the officers, requesting at the very least that he be allowed to drink water because he felt dehydrated, which they agreed to, but giving him toilet water. After the officers got tired of bothering him and saw that his health condition was deteriorating, they left him a few blocks away from his house and threatened him that he would suffer the same conditions every time he left his house.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Right to effective legal remedy
Right not to be submitted to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Economic and Social Rights
Right to work
Right to social and medical assistance
Perpetrator
Police
State security agents
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