Arrested in Bohorquez and economic sanctioned for making publications on social networks considered discrediting to the revolution



Yoel Acosta Games was detained in Bohórquez by the sector chief of the area together with another police officer. He was taken to the police station in Baracoa where he was detained for 2 hours, a state security agent told him that in accordance with the decree of Law 35, he could not continue to use the radio space to make publications on social networks that were neither offensive nor discrediting to the revolution. He also mentioned that this was his second and last warning because the next time he would be arrested and taken to prison. Yoel received a fine of 2,000 CUP and a warning letter indicating that he was meeting with antisocial people without labor ties and with counterrevolutionaries inside and outside Cuba who are in exile, which the accused refused to sign.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Personal freedom
Personal security and integrity
Right to seek, receive and impart information
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of association
Freedom of opinion and expression
Perpetrator
Police
State security agents
Political police
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