Eight UNPACU Activists Who Recorded A Video Remain Detained

Eight UNPACU Activists Who Recorded A Video Remain Detained / 14ymedio
Posted on June 26, 2015

14ymedio, Santiago de Cuba, 24 June 2015 — Eight of the 15 Patriotic
Union of Cuba (UNPACU) activists from the Altamira neighborhood in
Santiago de Cuba who were arrested Monday while filming an independent
video remain in jail, the leader of the organization, José Daniel
Ferrer, said Wednesday/

In a telephone call with 14ymedio, Ferrer said that among those still
detained include singer Omar Sayud Taquechel, Fernando Vazquez Guerra
and Romualdo del Risco Martin, who continue to refuse food at the police
station known as Micro 9. In another detention center in the city,
commonly called "the motorized," Héctor Velázquez Gómez, José Roberto
Núñez, David Fernández Cardoso, Anibal Ribeaux Figueredo and Franklin
Álvarez Fernández are in jail.

A video posted on UNPACU's YouTube channel, with hundreds of visitors so
far, caught the moment when security forces violently fell on young
people who were involved in filming on a Santiago street while carrying
a flag Cuban.

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