Searches And Arrests On The Eve Of Human Rights Day / 14ymedio
Posted on December 10, 2015
14ymedio, Havana, 9 December 2015 – In the morning hours on Wednesday,
the political police undertook a thorough search of the Patriot Union of
Cuba (UNPACU) headquarters in the Playa district of Havana. A portable
computer and other belongings were seized, a few hours before the start
of activities for Human Rights Day.
The owner of the home and activist of the organization, Arcelio Rafael
Molina, told 14ymedio that "at approximately 7 in the morning the police
started knocking" on his door and showed him a search warrant. After
taking the laptop, "a piece of equipment to improve the wifi signal,
that we use to send email," and printed documents, "they did not leave a
list of the seized items," the homeowner said.
Molina is sure they took the signed copies of "the complaints that had
been filed with the national leadership of the Police and other
authorities, regarding a similar search," last October.
During the operation, Jorge Cervantes Garcia and Andro Ross were
arrested; both are members of the UNPACU in Santiago de Cuba and they
were in the home at the time. To date their whereabouts are unknown.
Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White, denounced that in the town
of Esmeralda in Ciego de Avila province, the Lady in White Yarleni
Sanchez was arrested on her way to a medical clinic. The police arrested
her because they assumed she was on her way to Havana to participate in
the demonstration planned for Thursday at 23rd and L in Vedado, to mark
Human Rights Day.
Other Ladies in White, Julia Herrera and Nieves Caridad Matamoros, have
reported having their houses surrounded to prevent their going out in
response to the call to demonstrate. For the same reason the police
detained Pavel Herrera, a member of the opposition movement For a New
Republic, at 6.30 in the morning, and Rolando Reyes Rabanat, who was
taken from his home this morning.
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