House of the mother of an UNPACU activist was searched without any warrant



Juana Gamboa Leiva, mother of the coordinator of the opposition group Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), was sleeping at home when at 4:30 am officers with weapons for assault teared down the door of her house and they took her - punching and pushing - to the police car. They searched her house without any warrant and without witnesses, they took 320 booklets of Watchtower (as she is Jehovah's Witness religious), two cameras, a charger and a cell phone. During the register, Juana's blood pressure rose and she suffered a pain on her chest so she had to be admitted to hospital to cardiology.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Personal security and integrity
Right not to be submitted to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Freedom of religion
Inviolability of the home
Perpetrator
Police
Military
State security agents
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