HAVANA, Cuba. – Agents of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) and the State Security They tried to arrest independent journalist Julio Alega Pesant and his wife on Wednesday, he told CubaNet the reporter himself after the events.
The contributor to the independent newspaper 14ymedio He said that around 9:00 a.m. on July 24, when he was heading to his wife’s work, PNR agents stopped him at 5th and B.
After forcing him into the patrol car, the officers tried to arrest his partner as well. “She said that she didn’t have to get in the car, and if I hadn’t returned in two hours she would go to the station.” [de la PNR] to stand there and see what was happening,” the reporter said.
According to the journalist, a heated argument broke out at that moment and neighbours, who knew the couple, began to approach. “They soon declared the measure inoperative; they asked us for our ID and let us go,” he said.
“What happened? I don’t know; maybe when the neighbors came they didn’t want to cause trouble, or the order was just to intimidate me since the holidays are coming now. [por el 26 de Julio] and there is also the thing about [las elecciones presidenciales en] Venezuela“But I don’t know how you can intimidate an old man of more than 60 years old,” Aleaga Pesant concluded.
At the end of June, the reporter was fined 3,000 pesos under the Decree-Law 370the so-called “whipping law,” for his posts on social media. In addition, he was threatened with the seizure of his equipment, and even with being taken to prison if he remained active on these networks.
On that occasion, he was summoned to the Zapata and C Police Station, in Havanawhere he was accused of “disseminating information contrary to the social interest.”
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