The Baptist pastor Mario Felix Lleonart appears before the police / 14ymedio
Posted on October 10, 2014
14YMEDIO, Havana, October 9, 2014 – The Baptist pastor Mario Felix
Lleonart refused to sign the official warning he received yesterday
morning as part of a police citation. Although the document does not
explicitly mention his recent journey to the eastern part of the island
to check the status of harassment of some pastors, officers who
confronted him mentioned it verbally, according to the pastor.
Around 11 AM yesterday, a lieutenant colonel read Feliz Lleonart a
warning notice, in front of two witnesses – supposedly civilians and
found by the officers, who the pastor didn't know – and another lower
ranking State Security official.
The notice, according to the lieutenant colonel, is considered an
aggravating circumstance in the context of a possible criminal
prosecution, which the official described as "very likely."
This is the third warning the pastor has received, the last of which was
delivered on 25 January. In the notice he was warned that if he
continues to have close ties "counterrevolutionary elements within and
outside Cuba and counterrevolutionary radio stations," he will be
prosecuted.
The pastor, who lives with his family in the village of Taguayabon in
the central province of Villa Clara, in recent years has engaged in a
very intense activism. Among other actions, he denounced the police
beatings of Juan Wilfredo Soto, which could have caused his subsequent
death.
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