To Yudinela Castro Pérez, mother of the 18-year-old political prisoner Rowland Jesus Castillo Castro and 11J protester, a change of precautionary measure was approved this Thursday after spending almost 15 days arrested by State Security in Havana.
“From today Yudinela, a cancer patient who cares for her little grandson, will continue the investigation process at home, for alleged contempt,” reported the Justica 11J platform in your Twitter accountrecalling that her son “continues in a Cuban jail.”
Castro was arrested on February 24 in the morning hours, activist Arián Cruz reported at the time, Tata Poet, who explained that she had been transferred to Villa Marista, a center known as the State Security headquarters in the Cuban capital. Cruz later reported that, after six days of investigation, her mother had been presented with “contempt charges.”
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,” Cruz clarified. He also reported 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.” This newspaper has tried to contact her long before her arrest was known, but her mobile phone reports that it is out of service due to “call restriction”.
“From today Yudinela, a cancer patient who cares for her little grandson, will continue the investigation process at home, for alleged contempt”
One day after his arrest, he was handed over a habeas corpus in favor of Castro in the People’s Provincial Court of Havana because “his arrest and the subsequent proceedings were totally arbitrary,” Cruz said.
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. In a interview with 14ymedio warned of threats from State Security if he continued “claiming and protesting” in favor of the young man.
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 officials for interrogation, but she has always warned that “no matter what it costs,” nothing will stop her in her fight for her son’s freedom.
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