Yudinela Castro Pérez, mother of the 18-year-old political prisoner Rowland Jesús Castillo Castro and a 11J protester, has been detained for more than 48 hours in the State Security barracks in Havana, Villa Marista. The woman was arrested last Thursday morning and “she has not yet returned to her house,” activist Arián Cruz reported. Tata Poet.
Cruz explains that Castro’s arrest occurred at nine in the morning, except for the political police agent known as Robert, and she was later transferred to Villa Marista. This Friday the activist went to the place and an instructor assured him that the woman “is in an investigative process.”
“We managed to leave her clothes and toilet. He made a lot of emphasis that she would continue to be detained because ‘she did not want to cooperate’. Before we left, he told us that he would call to tell us what the steps were to follow, when he had a visit, or how the process was going. Cruz pointed out.
Castro, a leukemia patient, had to spend “a week in hospital last January and was quite serious because he fainted as a result of toxoplasmosis,” the activist clarifies. He also reports that every day he must take “a series of medications that did not let him pass, and he has not taken them for two days.”
Castro, a leukemia patient, had to spend “a week in hospital last January and was quite serious because he fainted as a result of toxoplasmosis”
This Friday at noon was delivered a habeas corpus in favor of Castro in the People’s Provincial Court of Havana because “his arrest and the subsequent procedures were totally arbitrary,” Cruz warns.
“On behalf of his family and friends, I hold State Security responsible for anything that could happen to him,” he concludes.
the activist Camila Rodriguez She also recalls that Yudinela Castro has her “two-year-old” grandson in her care.
Since his son was taken to jail, Castro has denounced each of the injustices that have been committed against the young man and has not stopped demanding his freedom. He has also denounced “the lies” of the regime told in the trial that was held against his son Rowland, accused of sedition and with an initial prosecutor’s request of 23 years, later reduced to 12.
On several occasions, Castro has been arbitrarily detained by State Security officers for interrogation, but always has warned that “whatever it takes” nothing will stop her in her fight to achieve her son’s freedom.
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