Although he had to be released, Hernández Leyva was transferred, without warning, to Villa Marista.
Havana, Cuba. – Activist Mario Alberto Hernández Leyva was subjected to forced disappearance since Wednesday, August 13, according to telephone the 11J protester Nilo Abrahantes Santiago From the Maximum Rigor Center the Pitirre, also known as 15-80.
According to Abrahantes Santiago, 10 days before his release (scheduled for August 13) the activist had been isolated in punishment regime for refusing to wear the prisoner uniform.
The source also stressed that, when Hernández Leyva was released, a pursuer was waiting for him at the exit of the jail located on the Santa María del Rosario road, in the capital of San Miguel del Padrón.
This was corroborated by the delegate of the Movement for a New Republic (Monr) by the municipality of Guanabacoa, Maritza Concepción Sarmiento, who added that, seeing that the days passed and Hernández Leyva had not arrived at her home, both she and other members of the opposition movement dedicated themselves to touring several units of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) asking for him, but in none of them the result was positive.
Finally, the woman added, in the afternoon of Monday, August 18, she received a phone call from a man who claimed to be an instructor of section 21 of Villa Marista (the headquarters of the State Security Organs in the country) and who refused to give her name.
According to the opponent, this individual said that Hernández Leyva was in that place and told her that she had to collect her belongings the next day in the Pitirre.
The activist also stressed that when investigating the state of the prisoner, the military replied that he was “good.” However, when trying to know the reason for that new detention, the uniformed snapped “conforme with knowing that she is here and is fine,” and hung the phone.
For his part, according to another source (under condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals), Hernández Leyva had just served a sentence of one year of deprivation of liberty for the alleged crime of resistance. According to this person, shortly before he had been imprisoned in the prison of maximum rigor of Valle Grande during similar period by another sentence based on the same criminal figure.
Mario Alberto Hernández Leyva is the leader of the Monr. He is 56 years old, he is a native of the Holguin province and at the time of being imprisoned, he earned a living as self -employed in the capital municipality of Centro Habana.
