Citizen detained for showing her disagreement with the constitutional project



Amalia Gonzalez was detained by the head of the department and the agent of the State Security, when she was defending the arbitrary detention of her cousin. He was detained because he expressed his disagreement for the new constitutional project. She argued that this was another deceit of the system, and that they knew that the population disagreed with all those laws established by the regime. Moreover, she stated that this was another manipulation to show that in Cuba there is unity, saying that against the dictatorship. For this reason, she was caught and brought to the police station named Parque 24, where she was detained for more than 5 hours. Finally, she was set free with a warning and threatened to be prosecuted if she kept on using such expressions.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Personal freedom
Freedom of opinion and expression
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Perpetrator
Police
State security agents
FPSN/16