Currently Ángel Cuza is being held at Vivac, and no exterior contact with relatives is allowed.
Arequipa, Peru – the Cuban regime on Saturday to the independent activist and journalist Ángel Cuza, who was released just over two months ago, on May 3.
As told Cubanet The ex -partner of the political prisoner and mother of his daughter, Ana Castillo, the detention was part of a repressive routine on the occasion of the July 26. Current Cuza is being held at Vivac, and will not be able to receive any contact from outside until next Monday.
The young independent journalist, Castillo said, was going to visit Havana when he was required and requisitioned by state security agents. They found him an old bullet that he carried as a souvenir and used it as justification to stop him.
“He had that bullet for years,” says Castillo.
Although Ángel Cuza does not have any weapon, his recent detention aligns with the threats of the repressive forces of the regime at the time of being released.
“At the minimum you do, you will return to the same bed that you leave here,” Officer Pablo, second head of section 21 of State Security, told Cuza, when he presented himself in the Maximum Combined Security Prison of the East, in Havana, the day the activist was released.
According to statements from the activist to the independent environment Aduncubathe agent hinted at that he could leave the island, a common practice among Castro repressors to promote the exile of Cuban dissent.
“They should not have people like us here, that we are frontal,” said Ángel Cuza, who before the invitation responded to the officer Paul who would continue to do the same as before being imprisoned.
Cuza was tried in the Popular Municipal Court of Centro Habana with Lázaro Rolando Kessel Barrueto and Yasser Rivero Bonni, who also faced charges for An altercation occurred in December 2022 in an agglomeration to buy food. The judgment of November 7, 2023 charged him One year and six months in prison for the alleged crime of alteration of public order.
Throughout 2023, Cuza remained regularly reporting Cubanethence He was persecutedharassed and detained several times by the Political Police. The activist was subject to ten arbitrary arrests and eight surveillance operations.
