During the morning, two unidentified man, tall and corpulent that, according to their accents and way of speaking could be from the Province of Santiago de Cuba, appeared in the house of the victims saying they were opposition from the city of Palma Soriano, Province of Santiago de Cuba, asking to talk to the husband. In the house there were the couple and their newly born child of 4 months old.
When the victim asked the reason of their visit, they started to speak loudly and aggressively, trying to demoralize the victims in front of their neighbors, indicating they were there to charge them for a debt. The aggressors said that if they did not cope with it, they were going to attack them, enter forcibly the house, and take everything of value until the debt is solved. They kept saying that they were not opposition, nor journalists, but “shameless people living from the opposition money”. When one of the victims react, they continued offending and threatening the couple.
The aggressors were accompanied by a group of seven people. Two were recording the situation with their phones and another five were attentive from a distance, pretending to fix a bike. Approximately 15 minutes after the incident a patrol car took the husband and the attackers to an office of the State Security (SS), the police refused to say the name of the aggressors.
In the next day, those present informed that those recording were in fact from the SS and, from the group of five, at least four were from the National Revolutionary Police civil-like dressed.
Rights Abused
- Civil and Political Rights
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Right to effective legal remedy
Personal security and integrity
Equality before the law
Right to private and family life
Protection against incitement to discrimation and violence
- Perpetrator
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Police
State security agents
Collaborators
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