Journalist arrested and threatened under false accusations

At 9:00 am, journalist Marelys Fonseca was arbitrarily detained along with two other people by two agents of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR). Without informing them of the reasons for the arrest, the agents took them to the Provincial Unit for the Instruction of Crimes against State Security, where the agents of the State Security Department (DSE) known as Miguel and Leandro, together with the DCSE Criminal Instructor Captain Daniel Ramírez Matamoros, interrogated them, accusing them of having placed several counter-revolutionary posters with the text "no to the new constitution" and "Cuba in the plural", which they had previously found and of having occupied enemy propaganda during the arrest. The officers involved used methods of intimidation against the journalist to prevent her from fully exercising her rights. She was threatened with a fine of up to $1,500 Cuban pesos (€48) and a search of her home, which, according to agent Leandro, would be carried out at any time and everything they found would be confiscated, even if it had nothing to do with the purpose of the search. This false accusation was recorded in a Warning Act that the journalist refused to sign. The victim was released at 6:15 pm the same day.