UNPACU activist detained by secret police and driven outside the city



Insulina Relles was on her way to attend Mass. When she was on the Palma Soriano Road, secret police agents detained the vehicle she was travelling in and told her to get off. Then the officials put her in a bus, where other members of the Cuban Patriotic Union (UNPACU) had been already inside. The bus was parked in the hot sun, on a place called La Tanqueta. Being detained there, agent Norberto approached Insulina and told her that she will be kept there until the Mass is over and if she was released, she would be taken to a remote place. As said, later on they put her in a car which drove her outside the city.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Freedom of assembly
Right to freedom of movement and transit
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Perpetrator
Police
State security agents
Ministry of the Interior
Political police
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