After having participated in Mass in Santa Rita de Casia Church, Kirenia Díaz went to the seaside to honor the memory of Orlando Zapata Tamayo and to commemorate shooting down of two planes belonging to the Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based activist nonprofit organization. When she was on the point of throwing the flowers to the sea, she was detained by State Security officials and National Revolutionary Police. She was released five hours later.
Rights Abused
- Civil and Political Rights
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Freedom of assembly
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
Ministry of the Interior
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