Saily González Velázquez was released this Tuesday night, after spending several hours held by State Security, who arrested her when she was marching on a street in Santa Clara for the freedom of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Castillo. osorb.
Several family members and friends who were waiting for her at the door of the police unit were told that they would release her if they could get her another sweater to wear over the one she was wearing, which had the slogans “free Maykel” and “free Luisma” written by hand.
“They released Saily González. Now he’s on his way home!” Blogger Boris Sancho reported on social networks. The message was replicated by several accounts of activists, who also confirmed that a patrol left the woman from Villa Clara at home and that the political police also questioned her mother.
A patrol left the Villa Clara woman at home and the political police also questioned her mother
The measure is part of a government policy denounced by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights, based in Madrid, which sent a report on Tuesday to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights detailing the use of relatives of detainees as part of the harassment.
“Government strategies consist of monitoring, intervening or suppressing the use of the Internet by family members to silence or reduce their presence on social networks and independent media outlets; urging them not to organize legal defense actions before national and international organizations; infiltration of agents or subjects of trust; and conditional offer of legal benefits or forced expatriation,” they warn.
So far, the young businesswoman and former moderator of the Archipiélago collective has not made any statements beyond the demand for freedom for Carlos Ernesto Díaz González, known as Dissident Ktive. The rapper from Cienfuegos was arrested in april after launching an anti-government harangue on top of a wall in Havana.
“The only thing I want to say is that if I am at home, Ktivo has to be too. We both protest the same on public roads. We both equally demand freedom for all political prisoners, because those prisoners are also my brothers,” González said, adding the labels that are being used for the 11J trials and the process against Otero Alcántara and Osorbo.
The video he recorded while walking described the government as “terrorist” and “fascist” for “all the injustices and arbitrariness” it commits. González added that the regime “cannot handle free souls,” that is why “it wants them imprisoned.” “Did I insult the national symbols?” He wondered, alluding to the accusation against Alcántara for his performance drapeauto which they replied: “That’s when I see Miguel Díaz-Canel standing next to the Cuban flag.”
The cassation appeals of several 11J protesters in the town of Las Vegas and the appeal of Abel Lescay are planned
At that moment, a State Security agent violently jumped on her and said: “You know you can’t do that. Give me the phone number. You know you can’t do that. Why do you do that?” . The individual also took González’s phone and interrupted the live broadcast, while she reproached him for her actions.
The judicial day on June 1 is also expected to be intense, since the appeals of several 11J protesters in the town of Las Vegas and the appeal of Abel Lescay, sentenced to six years in prison for his participation in the protests of July 11 in San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque.
The musician was defended by the singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, who asked for transparency through the issuance of Lescay’s trial and review of his sentence in a higher instance. “I have no faith that verticality will be rectified. As I have said other times, it is still a very small group of people, practically a sect, that makes decisions,” he said despite everything.
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