MIAMI, United States. – The reporter CubaNet Vladimir Turró Páez was arrested this Wednesday by agents of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) and State Security, when he was leaving the headquarters of the ladies in whiteIn the Habana.
Turró Díaz went to the place to interview the organization’s leader, Berta Soler, and her husband, former political prisoner Ángel Moya.
“One block from the headquarters of [la sede de] the Ladies in White arrested me. A patrol car and two State Security officers took me and took me to the Aguilera Unit. There they introduced me into an office. They took my phone, they took it to another place. So I don’t know how compromised my social media accounts are.” the reporter told CubaNetshortly after his release.
Then, he continues, “they started with the questions, the threats. The first question was what had I gone to Berta Soler’s house to do; [me dijeron] that they are aware of my work and that of my colleague Enrique Diaz Rodriguez; that they were aware of everything that we were publishing in CubaNet and that they were not going to allow this type of publication: to be interviewing activists and opposition leaders”.
The reporter also assured that the State Security agents told him that they were going to try to “prevent at all costs” that he continue doing his work as a journalist. They also threatened him “not to speed up” the regime’s process against him.
At the end of August 2022, State Security agents also arrested Turró Páez and they warned him that he could not continue his work as a freelance reporter.
“They gave me a warning for instigation to commit a crime and precisely [me dijeron] that they could open a process and send me to prison”, recalled the reporter from CubaNet.
“This confirms the persecution that independent journalists have and the way in which they try to prevent us from doing our job, whether it be interviews with members of the opposition or any other material that by its nature shows the reality of ordinary Cubans,” he said. journalist.
“They [los agentes del régimen] they try to prevent all information from leaving Cuba, from becoming visible abroad; and this is the way they have: repress, detain, imprison so that we do not do our job as independent journalists, ”he finished.
