MADRID, Spain.- Amnesty International (AI) demanded that the Cuban regime release the demonstrators detained for the peaceful protests on May 6 in Caimanera, Guantánamo province.
“We have received worrying information about the arbitrary detention of five young people in the context of protests in Caimanera and we demand that Miguel Díaz-Canel release him immediately,” he said from Twitter Amnesty International, organization that analyzes the situation of human rights in the world.
“State violence should not be the response to protests,” he added.
In his publication, he also shared information released by the activist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, who confirmed that two of the protesters remain detained in the Operations Unit in Guantánamo and three are reported under forced disappearance.
Those imprisoned are the brothers Luis Miguel Alarcón Martínez and Felipe Correa Martínez. While their whereabouts are unknown are Yandris Pelier Matos and the brothers Rodi and Daniel Álvarez González.
#Cuba??: State violence should not be the answer to protests.
We have received worrying information about the arbitrary detention of five young people in the context of protests in Caimanera and we demand that @DiazCanelB his immediate release.#CubaWithoutRepression https://t.co/DLCdGYDpuk
— Amnesty International Americas (@AmnistiaOnline) May 9, 2023
After the Caimanera protests, to which the Castro regime responded brutally, Victoria Martínez Valdivia, mother of Luis Miguel and Felipe, assured CubaNet that none of the demonstrators acted violently against people or state property.
“They came out because they saw what their nephews were eating: peas with weevils, rice and a boiled plantain, all cooked without oil. What are we? Males (pigs)?” Victoria questioned.
And he added that “they left because they couldn’t take it anymore. Hearing those little creatures say: ‘I’m hungry’”.
On the night of this May 6, hundreds of Guantanamo residents took to the streets due to the lack of food and the precarious conditions of the health system.
When the protests broke out, Internet and telephone access failures began to be reported throughout Cuba. Some users were able to connect via VPN, while others lost all communication for almost two hours. The NetBlock Observatory confirmed that the Cuban regime cut off access to the web. “Data from the network show the collapse of internet traffic in #Cuba in the midst of protests for freedom and human rights around Caimanera, Guantanamo,” they detailed.
After returning the connection, several videos on networks how the military violently repressed the people. Men and women were thrown to the ground and beaten.
