UNPACU activist detained and threatened by state agents



In the morning of October 25, an activist of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) Yuliesqui Pulido Guilarte was detained by the captain and chief of the sector of the center of the city Gianny Clape Rodríguez and by the lieutenant Feyo Nicle Hernández, who was accompanied by the informant Francisco Sáname. The reason for the arrest was an alleged meeting with people that were against revolutionaries. After being arrested, the activist was taken to the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) unit where he was interrogated by the major and head of the opposition, Alfredo Oliveros, This officer threatened the activist with jailing him again if he continued to commit public disorder and to meet with elements of ‘dubious morality’. Four months ago, the activist finished serving a three-year sentence with internment for pre-criminal dangerousness. The activist was released after being threatened in many ways, including state agents being ordered to beat him up if he continued to meet with counter-revolutionaries, and for speaking ill of the government in the middle of the public street. He was also threatened that he would be ordered to demolish the house that he had built without the government's permission. The officer who interrogated him told him to think about what he was doing because he could lose everything.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Personal freedom
Freedom of assembly
Protection against incitement to discrimation and violence
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Perpetrator
Police
Collaborators
DVBC/184