MIAMI, United States. – Several Cuban activists were detained this Tuesday morning while she was being interrogated Yordanka Battle Morean active critic of the Cuban regime on social networks.
Among the detainees, according to reports from civil society, are Yamilka Latifa (Lara Crof on social networks), Rosmery Almeda (Alma Poet), Yulier Rodríguez and Naty Arango; while Adelth Bonne Gamboa and Arián Cruz (Tata Poet) are currently in front of the Aguilera police station, in the Diez de Octubre municipality, awaiting the release of Rodríguez, according to indicated on Facebook the journalist Mónica Baró Sánchez.
According to exiled Cuban lawyer Fernando Almeyda, Lafita was detained at the Zapata y C police station, where there were “pretensions to prosecute or interrogate her.”
“He was (…) inquiring about the people who had been detained for accompanying Yordanka Battle Moré to the interrogation,” also confirmed on social media the journalist José Raúl Gallego.
For his part, Yulier Rodríguez was detained, supposedly, “for counterrevolution and for taking a photo of the unit [de policías]”, according to what Bonne Gamboa told Baró Sánchez.
“I need support, that people come, I know that at any moment they will stop us. I’m afraid that we won’t have time to say it,” the young man also told the Cuban journalist.
“To Yulier [Rodríguez] they arrested him, remember, when he tried to accompany Adelth Bonne in the summons they gave him. Upon arrival, according to his wife Jennifer Roque, in a post on Facebook around 10:30, the artist took a photograph of the unit to document the repression to which Adelth would be subjected and there he was arrested ”, Baró Sánchez explained.
In accordance with social media reports, Alma Poet was arrested for accompanying the activist Yordanka Battle Moré in the interrogation for which she had been summoned by State Security.
This Monday, Battle Moré was summoned by the Cuban State Security. From your account at Facebookthe activist announced that she would have to appear this Wednesday at the Zapata y C police station, in El Vedado.
“I was summoned without having said a slogan, without having said a bad word; without walking over anyone’s speech; just for talking about me and for me ”, denounced Battle Moré. They cite “a defenseless woman, who has refused to be herd, and she publicly shouts it out,” she added.
Due to her constant denunciations of the critical situation on the Island, especially related to the shortage of food and the long lines that Cubans have to face to get it, Battle Moré was fired a few months ago from the state entity for which she worked.
