Activist of Christian Liberation Movement arrested, interrogated and threatened

In the morning of 26th February, the house of activist Virgilio Palomino Suarez, a member of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL), was searched alleging the possession of enemy propaganda. State agents confiscated several old documents and detained him to investigate an alleged appearance of leaflets in some streets. While at the Unit, he was interrogated on several occasions and threatened so he would implicate or inform on other activists who may have distributed the leaflets. Despite his advanced age, he was threatened with prosecution and imprisonment for complicity with the internal counter-revolution and for intervening to get him fired from his job. The activist was held in a covered cell, in very poor hygienic and dark conditions. During the three nights he spent there, he was taken out for interrogation in the early hours of the morning. When he was released, he was given a warning for spreading enemy propaganda and none of the things confiscated during the search were returned to him.