Havana Cuba. – The journalist from CubaNet Vladimir Turró Páez was arrested this Sunday morning a few meters from his home, in the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, when he was trying to meet with an interviewee.
“It all happened around 9:00 in the morning about three or four blocks from my house. A police officer who identified himself as the head of the Sector of the town where I live, stopped me and asked me to accompany him to the Capri police unit because some of his colleagues wanted to talk to me,” the reporter said.
According to the journalist, arrested for the second time in less than 15 daysin the police unit he was received by three State Security officers, who gave him a written warning.
“One of them, the one who said he was an instructor at Villa Marista, put a piece of paper on the table and told me that it was a written warning that they were going to impose on me for instigating a crime,” explained Turró Páez.
“According to the officers, I dedicate myself to inviting people who approach me to speak ill of the Government. I told them that that was false, of course, and that they knew perfectly well that all I do is journalism; therefore I did not sign the document,” he said.
Turró Páez explained that the officers even showed him his alleged “counterrevolutionary” file, which, as they warned him, would be delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office after collecting three warning acts for the alleged crime of “instigation to commit a crime.”
“It is obvious that they are looking for a way to imprison me to stop my work as a journalist,” the reporter said.
Likewise, Turró Páez denounced that his telephone, occupied during the time the arrest lasted, was damaged. “After three hours of arrest they released me, but when they gave me back my phone I realized that it was wet and that they had put it in water,” denounced the reporter from CubaNet.
On August 17, after being attacked by a custodian in the queue of an MLC store at the Hotel Comodoro, Turró Páez was arrested by two State Security officers, who kept him for more than two hours at the station. of policemen from Zapata and C.
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