Police Threaten and Arrest the Spouse of the Lady of White



The police went to the house of a Lady in White, Maria de las Mercedes, but she was not home, so her husband Franklin attended to the officials. They began to ask him a series of questions related to Maria, to which he declined to answer. The officers pushed him, verbally threatened him and arrested him. They took him to police unit where he was detained until the next day.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Personal freedom
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Perpetrator
Police
State security agents
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