Activist arrested and threatened for meeting with other activists

On the afternoon of June 25, 2020, activist Henry Couto Guzmán was in the workers' distribution market when he was arrested by First Lieutenant Vichy and taken to the workers' distribution sector in Guantánamo. After about thirty minutes, he was attended to and told that he would be put on a file of pre-delictive danger for meeting with counter-revolutionaries like José Daniel Ferrer García and others, in addition to not working and not being a revolutionary. The detainee responded by defending his freedom and arguing that his rights and freedoms were protected by the Cuban Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). When he told the officers this, the first lieutenant stood up and hit the table and said that they did not like the UDHR at all, that this was a country of loyalists and that anyone who was not had to leave or he would end up in prison. The activist was released at 4:45 p.m. and when he left, Officer Victor told him that this year he and all the crazies that follow him and Ferrer would go to jail.