Carlos Ernesto Díaz González (known on social media as Ktivo Disidente) is accused of disobedience and contempt after climbing a wall on San Rafael Boulevard in Havana last thursday april 28 and claim freedom for Cubans.
According to your bill of Facebook, which is managed by another person, the rapper is detained in the Unpico Technical Unit, Pueblo Grifo, in Cienfuegos, and is expected to be transferred to the Ariza prison, in that province, considered maximum security. The same account indicates that the activist refuses to have a lawyer and is planted (on hunger strike).
Ktivo Disidente is a member of the Archipiélago collective and was arrested in November of last year, the day before the Civic March for Change, for putting up protest posters in Cienfuegos, where he lives. A week ago, perched on a wall in the Cuban capital, he raised his voice in a speech that lasted about five minutes.
“There must be no violence, there must be no bloodshed, but they must allow us to participate in the political life of the country,” he demanded. “He who is a communist must be, but he who does not have to be respected,” he said, while most of those who passed by on the street looked sideways or recorded with their mobile phones.
Ktivo Disidente is a member of the Archipiélago collective and was arrested in November of last year, the day before the Civic March for Change, for putting up protest posters in Cienfuegos
Some also asked him to shut up, to which the activist replied: “The people are scared, the people are terrified: citations, a sector chief above you, a informer above you. How long do we have to live like this?” ?”. He also reproached those who entered the foreign exchange store next to the place where he was protesting: “You can buy there,” he warned.
Hours before, Ktivo Dissident I had uploaded a video in which he invited Cubans to a march in favor of the release of political prisoners.
His detention lasted the time that the police officers found a ladder with which to lower him from the height to which he had climbed. Later, he got out without offering any resistance and, according to witnesses, he was handcuffed and put into a car. Since then his whereabouts have been unknown.
East mondaythe activist Yasmany González Valdés, who had been arrested in the operations prior to May 1, claimed after being released the role of some Cubans as Ktivo Disidente, whom he praised for his courage against those who ignored him in his protest.
“Clearer than the video of Ktivo asking for freedom alone and people telling him: ‘Shut up!’ : “This goes for the opponents and for the whole world, Ktivo is in prison for lack of support, so draw your own conclusions.”
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