Ill Activist Wrongfully Detained for License

" On August 9, at around 2:00 p.m., four guards from the Guamajal de Santa Clara Penitentiary arrived at the home of Cuban Reflection Movement (MCR) political activist Roberto Rodriguez Acevedo to return him to prison. According to the guards, the activist must remain there until the court that sanctioned him rules in favor of an Extrapenal License, already approved by the Department of Legal Medicine. He was not present at the site when the military arrived, but his family protested loudly before the guards, as well as numerous neighbors who were ready to film the arrest and upload it to social networks. The head of the operation was Lt. Arley, the reducer of the detachment number 8, where the activist extinguished his last sanction. By law, it is the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) that performs this function. On August 8, the activist was referred to the Guard Corps of the Arnaldo Milián Castro Provincial Hospital in the capital of Villaclara, for presenting a relapse in his health: to the point where he nearly had to be defibrillated. His Blood Pressure (BP) was 180 with 120 mm of Mercury (Hg), and he had to be put on oxygen, so his health is not compatible with the prison regime. On Monday August 12, the activist was summoned by telephone to the Villa Clara Provincial Court and was told that what the prison did by wanting to return him by his own means was an improper attribution. They also argued that the day before the events, they had summoned the parties to grant him an Extrapenal License, but due to an error it was not done. In short, they told him that the court's decision was to ratify the Extrapenal License. "