Activist detained for 24 hours for recording a video in a hospital

Yaimel Rodríguez Arroyo is a human rights defensor and a member of Democratic and Independent Cuban Party in Pinar del Río. At 2 pm, he was detained by two police officers in front of his house. He was then taken to the Abel Santamaría Hospital to be examined since the officers want to get a proof that he hadn´t been beaten. In the hospital, Yaimel told the doctors he was not any criminal, but a human rights defensor and shouted slogans such as "Down with opression!" and "Viva human rights!" After that, he was immediately driven to the police station, accused of a public scandal and put in a prison cell. Next day, a police official came to his cell and told him, that he was detained because he had visited other activist in the Abel Santamaría Hospital and had been recording the conditions the patients lived in. The director of the hospital thus call the police and denounced it. Yaimel was detained for 24 hours, being kept in a dirty cell without any water. During that time, he was threatened and treated badly by police officers instructed by State Security officials. The cell phone the officials confiscated him during the detention, was given back to him destroyed.