Activist detained and threatened for distributing antigovernment materials

The activist Francisco Luis Manzanet Ortiz was arrested in the morning on October 23rd because he was allegedly spreading false information about the regime through printed materials, which also talked about the arrest of the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU). The activist was supposedly spreading this information in the town known as Jamal, located about 10 kilometers from the city of Baracoa, he was arrested by the sector chief Captain Midelsi Duran Campo, and by the informant Carlos Hernandez Hacosta. After being arrested, he was driven to the sector, which is located about 500 meters from the center of town. There the Major and chief of confrontation Alfredo Oliveros and the first lieutenant Neuri Duran Pajan were waiting for him. These officers were introduced to the activist in a patrol car that was already in the place and took him to the city of Baracoa where he was then placed in a cell until he was taken out in the night hours to be interrogated by Major Alfredo Oliveros. This officer wanted the activist to tell him who gave him the forms to hand out, and where he printed them. At no time did the activist tell the state agent the identity of the person that gave them to him, much less where he printed them. The officer told him in a broken tone that if he continued to behave that way he should not even dream with leaving the country. The state agent went on to say that he knew that the activist had been invited twice to go aborad and that they would not let him leave, and that if he continued to behave in that way he would never be able to leave, because they were in-charge in Cuba and therefore he would become an old man in Cuba. The state agent then said that they were already tired of him, and to take care because it could dawn in a trench with the mouth full of ants and no one was going to say anything. The activist said that he should be very careful because the regime was running out of friends and that one day they were going to pay for all the suffering that they were inflicting on the people.The activist was released at about 12 p.m. on October 24th, not without having been threatened and officially warned that he would be imprisoned if he was caught in the act of breaching public order or carrying out subversive and counter-revolutionary activities. The activist had all printed documents in his possession confiscated, as well as $30 cuc (25.5 euros) and $200 pesos (6.4 euros) in national currency -CUP.