Through a publication in social networks, journalist Camila Acosta denounced the harassment of the Cuban regime’s political police.
Lima, Peru – the independent journalist Camila Acosta, reporter of Cubanethe denounced this Sunday that both she and her partner, the writer and political expreasing Ángel Santiesteban Prats, are besieged in her home by state security agents (SE) of the regime.
Through A publication On Facebook, the journalist reported the harassment of the Castro Political Police and reported that the renowned opponent Manuel Cuesta Morúa has also been besieged in his residence.
“Angel Santiesteban-Prats and I have surveillance of the SE in our home. Manuel Cuesta Morúa is also besieged. Can anyone explain to us why?” Acosta wrote on social networks.
After the complaint, the followers of the reporter offered several hypotheses about the cause of harassment. One of them pointed out that at this time (September 8) the island commemorates the Virgen de la Caridad, Patroness of Cuba.
“I have reported Catholic pilgrimages. They even stopped me in one of them, a few months ago,” Camila Acosta told Cubanet.
Last April, the journalist was intercepted by two agents from the Ministry of Interior (dressed as civil) during A live broadcast in the corner of 11 and E, in El Vedado, Havana. The reporter of Cubanet He was covering the procession by Good Friday in that area.
The two agents, who refused to show their credentials and say their names, demanded to Acosta to give them their official identification. After checking the document, both withdrew and left the journalist to continue on their way.
“That was surrounded by state security agents,” said Acosta.
The young journalist is a usual target of state security. For her work as a reporter, she has been subject to constant harassment and harassment, as well as defamation in state media. In addition, he has remained in his home, unable to leave, with a police fence for consecutive days, and has been questioned and detained numerous occasions.
