State Security proposes that Luis Robles work for them

The young Cuban Luis Robles Elizáztigui, whoHe has been detained since December for showing a sign calling for freedom and an end to repression in Cuba,He reported that State Security has proposed that he work for them.

“Yesterday Security came to see me and offered me a deal. The deal is that he would work for them,” Robles declared in a fragment of a telephone conversation released by Landys Fernández Elizáztigui, the young man's brother.

“So, my brother, I want you to publish on my Facebook that I am in prison for defending freedom of expression and the freedom of the people of Cuba. The only alternative they give me to get out of here is for me to work with them, andI am not willing to negotiate my principles or anything. I am willing to wait as long as necessary here. I'm not going to negotiate with them. There is no deal or anything with the dictatorship,” Robles concluded in the audio published on his profile on the aforementioned social network.

“Luis Robles is firm to his ideals,” the brother of the 28-year-old young man, who is in provisional prison after beingaccused of “acts against state security”, after the Police detained him on the central San Rafael Boulevard, on December 5.

The young man walked down the street with a sign held high that, in addition to asking for freedom and an end to repression in Cuba, also included the label#FreeDenis, in reference to rapper Denis Solís, who is also in prison.

When police officers arrived and took the sign away, several of those present expressed their disagreement with the violence applied against the young man, who at the time of being arrested shouted:"Freedom, down with the dictatorship!"

Recently, in statements toRadio Marti, Robles' brother reported that at the end of March the young man was taken out of the punishment cell where he had a "terrible allergy" and withserious skin injuries due to the dirt and humidity of the place.

Luis Robles was taken to a punishment cell in the Combinado del Este maximum security prison, in Havana, for “writing something,” although it is unknown what was written.

In March, the Joe Biden administration He publicly requested the release of Luis Robles: "Freedom of expression is a human right. No one should be imprisoned for carrying a sign," said the acting assistant secretary of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the United States Department of State, Julie Chung.