MIAMI, United States. — Young Cuban Adrián Martínez Cádiz, religious activist and correspondent for EWTN News on the island, he was summoned by the political police for questioning this Wednesday.
Martínez Cádiz, who had already been summoned on October 21, was to appear this afternoon at the Plaza de la Revolución police station.
In the first summons, the young man was questioned by a lieutenant colonel who, according to his own testimony, verbally mistreated him and barely let him speak.
“He treated me very badly, he raised his voice at me in a very bad way, he told me to shut up the times I wanted to explain something,” Martínez Cádiz said on that occasion.
At the end of the October summons, the correspondent for EWTN News —a medium that offers information on the events of the Catholic Church worldwide and reports on prominent Catholics in South and Central America— was fined 3,000 Cuban pesos.
During the first interrogation, the officer “threatened several times to put me in jail for my posts on social media,” Martínez Cádiz said after the meeting.
“They allege that I create ‘memes’ against the president (Díaz-Canel), which is not true,” added the young man.
The lieutenant colonel also warned the correspondent of EWTN News “that he could be criminally prosecuted” if he continued to publish content on social networks.
In a video recently sent to EWTN Newsthe young man explained that he received the second summons this morning from one of his neighbors and that it was dated November 14.
“It is curious because according to the law the summons should not be left with a neighbor, but with the person or at least with a relative,” the activist mentioned.
On this occasion, the political police did not even specify the reasons for the summons.
Adrián Martínez explained that if he does not attend the interrogation he can be fined 20,000 Cuban pesos or be criminally prosecuted for contempt.
The most recent reports by Adrián Martínez have addressed issues such as the lack of wheat flour to make Communion wafers in Cuba and the Days of Prayer for young people, which extend throughout the Island.
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