Human rights defender from Guantánamo threatened and fined by the State Security

A human rights defender, Niober García Fournier, was summoned by the State Security (DSE) official Diosnory Pelegrín to the police unit known as Operations for 9 am. When he got there, he was received by the official and her DSE colleague known as Víctor Víctor. They told him that he had been summoned due to videos he was making for the independent medium called Cubanet. According to the officials, he was denigrating the measures taken in order to fight the pandemic in the Guantánamo neighborhood of Ho Chi Ming. They issued him an official warning for spreading enemy propaganda, incitement to commit the crime, false denunciations and disobedience. Niober refused to sign the document. Later on, an inspector from the Ministry of Communications, Roberto Jesús Rivas Muñoz, told him that he would apply the decree-law 370 which penalizes misuse of radio electric space and internet network in order to publish content against morality and good customs. Based on that, Niober was fined 3000 pesos. Later on, Víctor Víctor threatened him that if kept publishing his videos, he would put in prison and statements of people he had interview would serve as an evidence for the trial for the above-mentioned crimes. After these threats, Niober was released.