On August 8, 2015, when Alexey Blanco Diaz, was participating at the campaign "No to gender violence" organized by the Latin American Federation of Rural Women (FLAMUR), he was unjustly detained. Alexey was telling to the captain of the State Security Juan Perez that the arrests they were doing, were illegal. Due to his opinion, Alexey was arrested being handcuffed and taken to the municipal police, where he spent 24 hours in detention. He was warned that if he returned to take part in the counterrevolutionary campaigns, they would not have compassion with him and would accuse him of disobedience, resistance or any other crime to remove him from circulation.
Alexey Blanco Diaz is an English teacher, human rights activist since 2009 and member of the Partido por la Unión Democrática Cristiana de Cuba (PUDCC) and in the past has been victim of acts of repudiation, illegal search of his home and he has been threatened by several officers.
Rights Abused
- Civil and Political Rights
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Freedom of assembly
Freedom of opinion and expression
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Right to be informed of the reasons for one's detention, at the moment of detention, and to be noticed, without delay, of the accusations
- Perpetrator
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Police
State security agents
Collaborators
Political police
VCPI/8
