State agents order civilians to stone an activist's home

On April 25, at 2:00 p.m., the household of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) activist Ángel Frometa Lovaina was stoned by Marnorlis Paumier, Enrique Dias Rodríguez, and Yunior La Antigua in their home, by orders of the department of state security (DSE) officers of the municipality of San Antonio del Sur Yudelqui Abad and Captain Yoandris Pelier. According to the activist,the aforementioned officers, told the people who stoned his house that nothing would happen to them because the house they had to stone was the house of a counter-revolutionary whom they could not allow to continue doing counter-revolutionary work in the municipality. The officers also told them it was necessary to fight it in every way possible and that they were authorized by the police. After an intense attack by these people against the activist's house, and because the residents of the neighborhood were also affected by the stone flood that not only damaged the house of the activist but other residents of the neighborhood where he lives, it was then that the attackers stopped throwing stones because of the protest of the neighbors, and the activist was then able to leave his house and lead a passive protest in the delegation from the Ministry of the Interior in protest of the brutal way in which the DSE sent criminals and prisoners to stone his house simply because he was an activist of the UNPACU. Additionally, because of his political activism in that municipality, and due to his protest in front of the unit of the Ministry of the Interior, he had to remain detained for more than 72 hours in the dungeon of the unit of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), where before being released he was given an official warning for public disorder.