Activist arbitrary arrested and kept without medicines and food despite his medical condition

On 10th January, at 8:30 am, an activist was going to the bakery when he was arrested by two counterintelligence officers. The arrest took place without an arrest warrant or any charges against him for any crime. The officers called themselves Major Leonardo and Officer Maycol from the State Security Department (DSE), who took him in patrol car No. 776 to the police station at Zapata and C in Vedado, and ordered him to be placed in a cell without the right to communicate by telephone with family or friends. The activist remained in cell No. 2, together with six common criminals and a mentally ill person, until 3 p.m. when he was transferred in a private green Lada car to the police station in La Lisa, where he was held in another cell until 1:20 a.m. the following day. The activist was kept without the medication he needed because of his blood pressure, without drinking any water or eating anything, and without being allowed to call his relatives to find out about his whereabouts. Due to a fight at 1:20 am, between uniformed and undercover police, he was taken to a place outside the station, where he was held until dawn in a room with very high power air conditioning. At around 7 a.m. he was taken to the police station again, where a doctor examined him and found that the activist's blood pressure was 173.111, so she advised him to go to a medical centre. From that moment on, and due to the fact that at no time during his detention was he given even the slightest attention, the activist refused to receive medical assistance and to drink or eat until he was released. Around 9 a.m. on 11th January, officers of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) asked him the reason for his arrest, when the activist told them that he did not know the cause and said that he had been arbitrarily arrested the day before at 8:30 am in the middle of the street and without an arrest warrant or any crime, the officers left and around 11 a.m. they returned to release him without explaining the reason for the arrest. The activist's mobile phone had been confiscated by counter-intelligence agents the day before but was not returned at the time of release. Once released, the activist went to the folder of the Lisa police station with the aim of filing a complaint against the counter-intelligence unit of the DSE but was denied this right. A Lieutenant Colonel, head of the police station, told him, in front of people and police present in the police station folder, that the counter-revolutionaries had no right to claim anything because they did not accept the constitution of the country.