PCR activist threatened with the confiscation of his working means



Cuban Republican Party activist Yordenis Mendoza Cobas, who works as a self-employed person driving a rickshaw, was stop by the sector chief of his area named Alexander Reyes Ramos to ask him for the papers authorizing him to do such work and the ownership of the bicycle taxi. The worker showed him the papers, once the boss checked the legality of the documents he told the worker that he did not want to see him forming a group, nor in any meeting against the government and threatened him saying that if he did not behave he would have the bicycle taxi confiscated. According to the victim, these acts are a reprisal for his activist activities.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Freedom of opinion and expression
Economic and Social Rights
Right to property
Right to work
Perpetrator
Police
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