AREQUIPA, Peru – The Cuban regime arbitrarily arrested activist Manuel Cuesta Morúa, vice president of the Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba (CTDC), this Saturday morning in Havana, according to the Cubalex Legal Information Center.
A publication of the organization on Instagram indicates that Cuesta Morúa was under siege in his home, under surveillance by the Castro regime’s State Security, and around 11:20 AM on December 7, he was detained.
“Until now, both the reasons for the arrest and his whereabouts are unknown,” the complaint states.
Cubalex recalled that the systematic use of arbitrary detentions, police surveillance and harassment continues to be a tool of control and repression against peaceful activists and opponents on the Island.
In this regard, the organization extended a call to the international community to maintain attention about rights violations humans in Cuba.
Last February, the Cuban opponent Manuel Cuesta Morúa was also locked up for more than four hours in a patrol car, after he was detained by the political police of the dictatorship when he left his house, in the Havana neighborhood of Alamar.
In statements offered then to CubaNetCuesta Morúa explained that they laid siege to his house from the early hours of the morning, with a patrol and a State Security agent; He was able to verify the state of siege when at 11:00 AM he went out to run an errand less than 100 meters from his home.
“Around 3:30 PM I went out again with the purpose of doing another errand and it seems that they interpreted it as me trying to escape, they detained me, then they took me to the Alamar police station,” said the dissident.
Likewise, the opposition leader explained that they first took him to an office and five minutes later they took him out, put him once again in the patrol car that they left parked at the same station, and kept him there for four and a half hours, until 8 a.m. :00 pm, they released him.
