Bartolo Cantillo detained on his was to the Sunday Mass

At 7 a.m., Bartolo Cantillo Romero was heading to the Santuario del Cobre to assist in Sunday Mass in the province of Santiago de Cuba, which was being conducted to demand the release of political prisoners and the end of political repression. He was arrested by the officer of the State Security known as El Chino and taken in the patrol car no. 773 to the police unit of the municipality Manuel Tames. There he was being threatened by the political police with going to prison and was released at 2 p.m. that same day.