Minutes before offering a telephone interview to Radio News, State Security detained Guillermo Fariñas, coordinator of the United Antitotalitarian Forum on Thursday. “Security people came dressed as nurses”, reported to the same media Alicia Hernández, mother of the Cuban activist. “They took him in an ambulance to the Santa Clara provincial hospital. They didn’t let us talk to him.”
Fariñas’s arrest comes just after, together with Berta Soler, both recognized with the European Sakharov Prize for freedom of conscience, they addressed letters to the representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, and to the president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, in which accused of abandoning the EU about the situation in Cuba and even threatened to renounce the award.
“The Sakharov Prize must be a commitment by all parties to never use diplomatic silence in the face of human rights violations and, even less, in the face of crimes against humanity,” the letters stated.
This Thursday, after several hours without knowing the whereabouts of the Cuban activist, his daughter Haisa Fariñas located him in “the Pneumology room, bed 1, of the Arnaldo Milián Hospital”
This Thursday, after several hours without knowing the whereabouts of the Cuban activist, his daughter Haisa Fariñas located him in “the Pneumology room, bed 1, of the Arnaldo Milián Hospital.” Place, in which he specified, “he is being held against his will.”
The young woman used their social networks to denounce that Fariñas is “kidnapped” by State Security for “opposing the Castro regime.” The opponent was attending to the suggestion of rest indicated by the doctors after being released from the hospital arrest of which he was a victim prior to the march frustrated by the repression of 15N that was called by the Archipelago platform.
Regarding the detention of Fariñas, the Cuban businessman and activist based in Florida, Manuel Milanés, warned that this method of detention was the same that the regime used “when the 15N, foreseeing that tomorrow is 10D, Human Rights Day.” And he specified that the opponent “is not sick.” The arrest, he considered, is because “it is not enough to monitor him 24/7. They have to kidnap him to prevent him from manifesting.”
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