This Wednesday two of the protesters arrested on October 2 in a popular protest were released on bail in the street Line of Havana. Rosmery Almeda (Alma Poet) and Danilo Martínez have been able to return home after more than two weeks in detention, as confirmed by relatives of the young people.
“Alma Poet is already at home, with three kilos less, with a hollow smile, a gloomy look, and an immense emptiness. But it will flourish, I am sure, it will flourish”, wrote on facebook the activist Arián Cruz, known as Tata Poet, and partner of Almeda. “He still does not have his phone in his hands, when the time comes he will thank so much love with his own voice,” he detailed.
“The other five boys from Línea and F are not yet at home,” he clarified. Aylin SardinaMartinez’s girlfriend. “It is beautiful to have Danilo and Rosmery out on bail but the only thanks are to everyone who has fought and to the lawyer.” The young woman considers that “they should never have been there”, referring to the detention center known as 100 and Aldabó in Havana
“It is beautiful to have Danilo and Rosmery out on bail, but the only thanks are to everyone who has fought and to the lawyer”
In the early hours of the Sunday that both protesters were arrested, the neighbors closed the central avenue at the intersection with F Street and on the path where vehicles travel to join the Malecón. They blocked traffic with overturned garbage cans, tree branches that fell in the winds of Hurricane Ian, which hit the island last Tuesday, and other objects.
A human cordon also got in the way, which was illuminated by public lighting and chanted slogans such as “Freedom!”, “Turn on the power!” and “Put on the light!”, a claim that was answered a while later with the arrival of buses and trucks full of shock troops dressed in civilian clothes to counteract the demonstrators.
According to data provided on Tuesday by the Justice 11J organizationSince September 29, the number of Cubans arrested throughout the island during the protests against the blackouts has risen to 52. After the demonstrations of July 11, 2021, at least 1,753 Cubans have been arrested for protesting peacefully.
For its part, the independent media Inventory Project has recorded more than 200 protests against daily power cuts from July 14 to October 15. This week, Cubans have taken to the streets at least in the Vista Hermosa district, in Santiago de Cuba; in Buena Vista, in Las Tunas, and in San Andrés, Holguín.
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