UNPACU activist detained for two days when trying to leave his province

On 24 December 2018, Bartolo Cantillo Romero was about to go to the Santiago de Cuba Province in order to visit the headquarters of the Cuban Patriotic Union (UNPACU), a human rights organization he belongs to. When he was already at the bus station looking for a connection to the above-mentioned province, he was detained by two State Security (DSE) officials known as Víctor Víctor and Roberto, put in the patrol car no. 631 and taken to the police unit in Yaya in the municipality of Niceto Pérez. When they got there, the DSE official interrogated him and told him that he could not leave the municipality of Guantánamo and if he kept being involved in UNPACU, he would be put in prison along with his wife Celina Osoria Claro and activists Niober García Fournier, Henry Couto Guzmán and Yordias García Fournier. They threatened him that this time he would be imprisoned for 3 or 5 years. Eventually, he was released at about 9 am on 26 December.