Peasant arrested, threatened and forced to sell his products to stockpiling



Around 9:30 am Mr. Jorge Luis Gómez Téllez was arrested by a political police officer for selling a donkey banana that he harvests on a farm that was distributed by the agrarian reform to his father in exchange for which he was forced to sell the bananas to him for stockpiling, a government identity. The peasant was threatened and fined two fines of $40 Cuban pesos (€1) each. One of the police who drove him to the unit threatened to beat him. He sells the bananas for $5 Cuban pesos ($0.16) because he says he cannot swindle the people. At the time of the arrest an elderly man approached him to buy the bananas, he told him that he was giving them away, but the police would not let him. The peasant asked them how much they would give him for the bananas, but in view of the bad price they offered, the peasant told them to take them away. A police officer named Calitin told him that the land was given to him in exchange for its fruits.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Personal freedom
Protection against incitement to discrimation and violence
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Economic and Social Rights
Right to property
Right to work
Freedom of enterprise
Perpetrator
Police
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