Wilber Aguilar Bravo denounced that the restrictions imposed by the police have no legal protection and that any resistance can lead to a criminal case.
Miami, United States. – Wilber Aguilar Bravo, father of the political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera, denounced on Wednesday, in A live Facebook transmission Shortly before 12:00 noon, a pattern of harassment and arbitrary arrests by the National Revolutionary Police during the month of September.
According to his story, in recent weeks he has been intercepted by the authorities four times. Recently, agents uploaded him to patrol 690 on the güinera road to lead him to his home “without an act of a prosecutor, without a crime, without a problem, with nothing.” “Four times I have been harassed and repressed by the Police,” he said. “They set me up in the [carro] Patrolman, they brought me to my house. I couldn’t leave. ”
Aguilar Bravo framed these facts as part of a systematic policy of coercion against citizens. “The only solution you have in this country against citizens is repression,” he said at the beginning of transmission. He said that, while “right now there is a Cuban commission in the UN”, in that forum “they do not say the repression” that Cubans live.
The man said that September’s harassment included a police citation for him and his son on day 3, as well as reinforced surveillance on the 7th and 8th. In his testimony, he related these actions with dates considered “sensitive” by the authorities: “Every time there is a date of some holy, something religious, a maleconazo [protesta]it’s there harassed, ”he said.
Aguilar Bravo denounced that the restrictions against him have no legal protection and that any resistance can derive in the opening of a criminal case against him. “If I resist the arrest, I am imprisoned; they lift me a cause of contempt,” he warned. He reiterated his right to free circulation: “I am free to walk, I have no crime,” he said.
During the transmission, he also described a context of daily precariousness that, in his opinion, aggravates the vulnerability of families. He denounced cuts of services and scarcity. He also pointed to the lack of medicines in the health system: “A country without medicine, without food, with nothing,” he said, before detailing that in his home “there are three patients”: “Today [mis nietas] They did not go to school because they feel bad a country where you have no medicine to give your people. ”
The testimony included references to neighborhood surveillance mechanisms and constant signaling to its private life. “I have two, three guards here,” he said. In his opinion, while this pressure is imposed, “crime is partying” and “every day they kill, every day they steal.”
Aguilar Bravo insisted that his activism responds to the claim for the freedom of his son and for his family. “I am fighting an injustice,” he said. He added that his granddaughters “are raising seeing how they repress their grandfather for defending their dad.”
The man requested that his complaint be made visible within the island itself. “I don’t want to go out on the news outside or anything. I want them to get me here, put this truth: how we are repressed,” he claimed. In parallel, he criticized the official narrative about public order: “Where is citizen tranquility?” He asked, before stating: “The biggest prison is called Cuba (…). This is the largest prison in the world, that is, it is called Cuba.”
The story also included his recurring response to the abuses that he denounces: “When I go out to shout, I will shout ‘Libertad’, I will shout for freedom, because we live prisoners.” He assured that, in the face of electricity or water cuts, his reaction will be the same: “I will shout ‘freedom, freedom, freedom’.” Towards the end of the video, he closed with a general call: “They already stop with their repression against the people.”
Aguilar Bravo emphasized that he has not committed crimes and that his life revolves around his family: “I do not rob you, I do not get into any house to steal or anything (…). I am focused on my family, I live for my family.” In his opinion, the State is “torturing its people.”
At the end of January of this year, the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures in favor of Aguilar Bravo and his family. In its resolutionthe Inter -American Agency considered that the beneficiary was “in a situation of gravity and urgency of risk of irreparable damage to their rights.”
Aguilar Bravo has been the subject of constant surveillance since 2022, after initiating a campaign of public complaints for the arrest of his son, political prisoner and also a beneficiary of precautionary measures.
At that time, the IACHR documented that, as a result of its human rights defense activities, Aguilar Bravo had undergone “repeated arrests, during which episodes of incommunication with their relatives have been reported, inadequate conditions of confinement, and repeated threats by state agents”.
The IACHR asked the Cuban State to “adopt the necessary measures to protect the rights to personal life and integrity” of Aguilar and his family, as well as “implement the necessary measures so that they can develop their human rights defense activities without being subject to threats, harassment or acts of violence.”
