Journalist Manuel Alejandro León arrested and interrogated for participating in a course in Spain

Arriving from a training in Spain, the journalist and human rights defender Manuel Alejandro León left Havana on 6th November in a public transport truck headed for Guantánamo. On the morning of the next day, as he passed through the police checkpoint in the town of Río Frío, Guantánamo, the police stopped the truck in which the activist was travelling. The State Security Department (DSE) officer known as Raúl got into the vehicle and told him to get out, he also said that they were waiting for him and arrested him. 40 minutes later, he was taken in a Jeepe highway patrol to the police unit in the town of La Yaya, in the municipality of Niceto Perez. At the unit he was interrogated by the DSE Captain known as Kevin or Jefferson, who wanted to know the reason for the trip and if it had anything to do with the new constitution that was being developed in Cuba. He also checked his belongings and confiscated his credentials from Diario de Cuba, along with some documents and his passport. He was told that he would be summoned to return his passport. The activist was released around 1 pm the same day.