On the 2nd of September 2016, the officer of the so-called National Revolutionary Police (PNR) Gianni Clape Rodríguez, accompanied by the Captain Carlos Hinojosa and the informants José Hinojosa Fideau, Francisco Sáname y Ángel Santana, detained violent and arbitrarily the activist Alnaldo Álvarez Abab when he was driving his bici-taxi on the Street Martí. The reason of the detention was, according to the officers, that the activist owed a fine of 200 Cuban pesos (8€). Afterwards, the aforementioned state agents took the activist to the police delegation of the PNR, where he was informed of the real reason of his detention, which was that allegedly the activist wrote signs with messages against the government on the walls of public buildings. For this reason he would be prosecuted.
Rights Abused
- Civil and Political Rights
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Personal security and integrity
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Right to be informed of the reasons for one's detention, at the moment of detention, and to be noticed, without delay, of the accusations
- Perpetrator
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Police
State security agents
Collaborators
DVBC/12
