Eliover Navarro Gainza was arrested on April 17 in Baracoa by officers of the National Revolutionary Police, including Lieutenant Feyo Nicle Hernández and 3 officers of the Special Troops (the Red Berets). The arrest was carried out due to a complaint made by Clara Lovaina Meriño (president of CDR in the area), who indicated that the 29-year-old activist was trying to write alleged anti-government posters. The young Navarro was detained and beaten in the face by Ramiro Galván García (member of the CDR), while members of the police did not take action to stop the aggressions. After his arrest, he was taken to the National Revolutionary Police Unit where he was detained for more than 72 hours under investigation and interrogation by state security and PNR officers. Afterwards, he was transferred to the Municipal Prison where he remains in detention awaiting trial, to which one of the officers indicated that the imprisonment was for reasons of "reckonings and as a way of setting an example to other activists".
Rights Abused
- Civil and Political Rights
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Right not to be submitted to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Personal security and integrity
Right to effective legal remedy
Freedom of opinion and expression
Personal freedom
Right of detainees and prisoners to be taken promptly before a judge or other officer authorized by law to exercise judicial functions
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
- Perpetrator
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Police
Ministry of the Interior
DVBC/396
