A citizen from Baracoa intimidated at home by PNR official



Felix Fernández was visited at his home by an official from the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) known as Cornelio. The official threatened him with imprisonment if he kept disturbing customers of the fish market opposite his house with his begging. Felix is desperate and asks people for financial or material help in order to subsist. The official also issued him an official warning. If Felix did not respect it, he would be prosecuted based on the law on dangerousness.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Right not to be submitted to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Personal freedom
Perpetrator
Police
JKOI/104