Political police pressure William Tamayo Ramayo and his wife to sign documents that would make them lose custody of their son



The chief officer of the neighborhood appeared at the home of William Tamayo Ramayo to get him to sign a paper certifying that he and his wife had psychiatric problems, and threatened them that if they did not sign, they would have to go to the police station. Later they put them in a patrol car and drove them to the political police department. Once there, Ramayo and his wife were separated in different offices so that they could be interrogated separately. An official from the political police started harassing Ramayo to sign some documents where he would agree that he was crazy, according to the words of this agent, intimidating him with threats that if he didn't sign they would make him disappear. According the the victim's testimony, they also did this to his wife, in order to take custody of their son away from them and thus distance him from the kind of education that they wanted to give him, which doesn't have anythign to do with the politicized education system that Cuba has at this moment.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Right to private and family life
Perpetrator
Police
State security agents
NRGV/66