Detained for willing to honor the memory of victims of a disaster



Yanisel Boza Carrido was detained and repudiated by agents of the State Security, National Police and paramilitary mobs, after having participated in a mass in the church Santa Rita de Casia when she was going to deposit flowers in the sea to honor the memory of the victims of the "13 March Tugboat disaster". She was taken to the Tarara detention center where she was held for several hours.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Freedom of opinion and expression
Right to freedom of movement and transit
Right to political participation
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Perpetrator
Police
Military
State security agents
Committees for the Defence of the Revolution
Collaborators
Ministry of the Interior
BSDC/271