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Friday, August 07, 2015

Police Warn Gorki Aguila He Will Not Leave Cuba If He Continues His Activism

Police Warn Gorki Aguila He Will Not Leave Cuba If He Continues His
Activism / 14ymedio
Posted on August 6, 2015

14ymedio, Havana, 5 August 2015 – After several hours of being detained
by the police, the musician Gorki Águila was released at around four in
the afternoon on Wednesday. During his arrest he was taken to the Fifth
Station in the Havana municipality of Playa where an official warned him
that he would not leave Cuba again if he continued attending the Sunday
marches of the Ladies in White, according to what Gorki told 14ymedio in
a telephone conversation.

The rocker and leader of the band Porno para Ricardo detailed that they
warned him that his arrest would be brief, but if he continued to pursue
his activism, "Those who invite you to visit other countries will have
to come looking for you in boat."

Hours earlier, his daughter Gabriele had denounced that, "Yesterday at
noon they brought a police citation, which he received but he refused to
sign it because he didn't know the reason behind it." The police agents
were looking for the rocker for a couple of hours today at noon; a call
to the phone number 18806 — through which one can ask for information
about any citizen detained — which did not reveal his whereabouts nor
the reason for his arrest.

The last time the musician Gorki Águila slept in a cell was at the end
of May, when he was arrested outside Havana's Museum of Fine Arts for
carrying a sign with the image of the graffiti artist El Sexto, with the
word "freedom." This Wednesday history was about to repeat itself.

Source: Police Warn Gorki Aguila He Will Not Leave Cuba If He Continues
His Activism / 14ymedio | Translating Cuba -
http://translatingcuba.com/police-warn-gorki/

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