Activist from Guantánamo detained, beaten and driven ouf of the city

In the morning, 29 August, 2020, Bartolo Cantillo Romero was on his way to the exchange office where he was detained in a police action led by the State Security. The officials beat him up right on the street and put him in a red car. Bartolo was then taken to the police unit called Operations located outside the city of Guantánamo. When they got there, he was threatened with imprisonment for an alleged cooperation with foreign powers, being at the service of the United States and collaborating with José Daniel Ferrer García, the founder of the Cuban Patriotic Union (UNPACU). He was kept in the unit for more than 9 hours and then released at night, several kilometres away from Guantánamo.