Yudinela Castro Pérez, mother of young Rowland Jesús Castillo Castro, who faces a 12-year prison sentence for demonstrating on July 11, has been transferred to the 100 y Aldabó prison. As reported on his social networks by the activist Arián Cruz, Tata Poet, Castro “has been charged with contempt” after six days of investigation.
The woman had been initially taken last Thursday to Villa Marista, the State Security headquarters in Havana, where Cruz denounces that they sometimes return to Castro “to be psychologically tortured under forced interrogations.”
Days before, on February 17, his friends and activists from the Opposition Movement for a New Republic, José David Hernández and Misleydis Rodríguez, were also arrested after a State Security search of their home.
A leukemia patient, Castro had to spend “a week in hospital in January and it was quite serious because he fainted as a result of toxoplasmosis,” the activist had recalled in another post, in which he also specified that every day she must take “a series of medications that did not let her pass” when he went to inquire about her the first time.
“I would like to point out that this sick mother was arbitrarily arrested at her home, that she did not show any resistance, and that despite knowing that her arrest was unjust and illegal, she decided to cooperate and go with them”
“I would like to point out that this sick mother was arbitrarily arrested at her home, that she did not show any resistance, and that despite knowing that her arrest was unjust and illegal, she decided to cooperate and go with them to what was supposed to be ‘a interview’, that’s how State Security loves to call these repressive, repulsive, and criminal interrogations,” Cruz said.
Last Friday was delivered a habeas corpus in favor of Castro in the People’s Provincial Court of Havana. As Cruz specified this Wednesday to 14ymedio They have not yet received a response from the court, but they have already hired a lawyer for Yudinela Castro.
Since his 18-year-old son was taken to jail, Castro has denounced each of the injustices that have been committed against the young man and has not stopped demanding his freedom. He has also denounced “the lies” of the regime told in the trial that was held against his son Rowland, accused of sedition and with an initial prosecutor’s request of 23 years, later reduced to 12.
On several occasions, Castro has been arbitrarily detained by State Security officials for interrogation, but she has always reiterated that “whatever it takes” nothing will stop her in her fight to achieve her son’s freedom.
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