Bárbara Farrat, mother of 17-year-old Jonathan Torres Farrat, detained after the protests on July 11 (11J), was arrested when she tried to leave her home this Friday morning. “She went down to the corner to look for cigarettes and the patrol that was turning took her away,” he denounced 14ymedio Torres Farrat’s girlfriend, Daimy Morales Moré.
Morales explained that Farrat’s husband, Orlando Ramírez, came out to have news but says the officers did not give him reasons for the arrest. “Orlandito ran down to ask questions and they told him that they were going with her to the Aguilera police unit. He already went there to ask but they did not want to give him any information,” he added.
Bárbara Farrat lives with her family in the Calzada de Diez de Octubre and since her son was arrested on August 13, she has been tireless in the fight to achieve her freedom and also that of the others imprisoned by 11J.
This morning, his home was surrounded by a police operation, the family said. On several occasions, State Security agents have threatened Farrat with prosecution for sedition if she continues to post on social media about her son’s situation.
Minutes after leaving the police station, Orlando Ramírez told this newspaper that “in the same entrance” of the Aguilera station he could see the moment when a patrol was taking Farrat to another place. “She tried to tell me something but the windows were up, the patrol was escorted by a State Security captain who was riding his motorcycle. The unit told me that she was never there,” he said.
“Many mothers in some WhatsApp groups were saying that they would go to meet this afternoon in the churches to pray for their children and for this Christmas that they will spend away from them”
Ramírez also says that a State Security official was on his motorcycle from early on, watching the corner of the house. “Many mothers in some WhatsApp groups were saying that they would go to meet this afternoon in the churches to pray for their children and for this Christmas that they will spend away from them.”
He specified that “this is not a crime”, although he denounced that “what happens is that in those same groups there are mothers who are passing information to State Security because that call was between them and it did not have to go public. But it came out. Maybe they thought that by giving information they are going to save their children without knowing that they are sinking them further and putting more families to suffer. “
“This country has given me so much, but so much pain, that this is not just because of my son or the minors in prison, this is because of all the injustices that are being done in this country, that I promised that I would denounce them” Farrat recently assured in a live broadcast on your Facebook profile. On that occasion, she was accompanied by other members of three families who, likewise, have a close relative imprisoned for demonstrating on July 11.
“For every cruelty that they do to my son, I will continue to denounce. I will not shut up. Even if I manage to free my son, for every person who is imprisoned by 11J I will continue to denounce,” Farrat said at the time. “I beg you to unite us as mothers. Now comes the 24th and the 31st [de diciembre], and no mother needs to spend these dates away from their relatives. “
“This country has given me so much, but so much pain, that this is not just because of my son or the minors in prison, this is because of all the injustices that are being done in this country, that I promised that I would denounce them”
One of those who also demanded the freedom of her son on that occasion was María Celia Aguilera, mother of the detainee Luis Armando Cruz Aguilera, whom the Prosecutor’s Office is asking for a sentence of 18 years of deprivation of liberty.
“I want justice and I will continue asking for justice,” said Maria Luisa Fleitas Bravo, a resident of Arroyo Naranjo and mother of 11J detainee Rolando Vazquez Fleitas, currently in the Valle Grande prison. “They are asking my son for 20 years, I did not send this video at first because I was waiting but they are already asking me for 20 years as if he were a murderer, as if he were a rapist,” Fleitas denounced in a recording that circulate on social networks.
Bárbara Farrat has also denounced other threats that she has received from State Security after delivering the letter addressed to Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, in which she and a hundred family members ask for the immediate release of those detained for the protests of 11 Julio and all the political prisoners. They gathered more than 150 signatures and Farrat and her husband they delivered it this week in the offices of Attention to the Population of the Council of State.
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