The activists Inti Soto and Ángel Cuza, two of the six protesters arrested after the April 30 sit-in on Obispo Street in Havana, were released on Tuesday, after eight months in prison, confirmed to 14ymedio Mary Karla Ares, a freelance journalist also arrested during the protest.
Cuza was in the Combinado del Sur prison in Matanzas. “I just spoke with him, he really hasn’t even come home, he’s on his way. I’ve been in contact with him all this time and now he called me to break the news,” Ares said.
For her part, Soto’s wife, in conversation with this newspaper, said that the activist was released on Tuesday afternoon and was in the Taco Taco prison, in San Cristóbal, Artemisa. “We are happy, but very nervous. We are on our way to pick him up because he called us to go and look for him,” he explained.
“I just talked to him, he really hasn’t even come to his house, he’s on his way. I’ve been in contact with him all this time and now he called me to break the news”
Last september, activists Thais Mailén Franco Benítez and Yuisan Cancio were also released. Previously, in May, she had been released from prison Mary Karla Ares. They still keep reporter Esteban Rodríguez in prison; his family has no news at the moment that he will be released.
In their protest, the protesters tried to approach the house of the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who was then on a hunger strike, when the Police tried to prevent them. At the time, they sat down to protest against what they saw as a limitation of their right to free movement and were detained.
The video, broadcast live from the place, provoked broad solidarity with the detainees of that day. Amnesty International was one of the first international organizations to call for the immediate release of these protesters.
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