Havana, Cuba- The independent journalist, blogger and creator of the portal “Cubanos de Adentro y de Abajo” Agustin Valentin Lopez Caninowas arrested today May 20, 2023 by combined forces of State Security and the National Revolutionary Police (PNR).
The arrest was denounced by René Fernández Quiroga, a source who managed to record several seconds of the moment when the State Security agent entered López Canino’s yard and later left accompanied by him.
At the time of writing this note, the source’s cell phone remains off, so could have been also stopped.
This editor could not locate other activists involved in the protest as Alexis Perez Lescailles.
The arbitrary detention is intended to prevent him from participating in the peaceful protest that, for the third consecutive year, has been announced and of which the portal “Cubanos de Adentro y de Abajo” has become one of its most faithful promoters.
According to information to theto that CubaNet had access to, on May 17, López Canino was summoned to the PNR Sub-Unit of Calabazar by 1st Lieutenant Adismilka Pérez B in her role as Head of Sector of the El Globo neighborhood, belonging to the Calabazar People’s Council of Boyeros municipality.
assured the journalist independent that, in the “interview” in front of the Chief of Police, as is customary, he received serious threats of what could happen to him if he persisted in his intention to continue calling the march and participating in it. Among them, they assured him that he could be sentenced to up to ten years in prison for the alleged crime of “Instigation to commit a crime”.
He also referred that laterr During this “interview” he was visited at his home by a delegation from the Municipal Government of Boyeros.
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