The Cuban police summoned activist Raúl Soublett López for this Tuesday without knowing the reason for the interrogation that will take place in the 7th and 62nd unit, Havana municipality of Playa.
The news was announced by independent journalist Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho, partner of the activist for the rights of people of African descent and LGBTI+.
Valdés Cocho recalled that his partner was subjected to an interrogation for about 4 hours in February of this year, causing an emotional crisis in the young man.who ended up self-harming.
"Apparently state security is not enough with the repression exerted on me; now it harasses, harasses and represses my family, partner and close friends," the independent reporter wrote through his account.Facebook.
CyberCubaHe contacted the activist to investigate the possible motivations that the police have with him, and after talking he told us that he did not know the reason, however he does consider that it is a strategy to intimidate the activists on the island.
"These methods try to psychologically destabilize the person. Make activists feel constantly watched, pressured, and fear losing their job or studies," he emphasized.
Two days ago Soublett López, a computer science teacher at a primary school in Playa, held a meeting with the vice director of education of the Municipal Directorate of Education and a State Security agent and in said meeting they questioned his activism.
Interested in knowing what was discussed at that meeting, Soublett explained to this medium that they warned him that they would not tolerate an influence of his activism on the classes he teaches.
"As long as I don't do activism within the school everything would be fine, but otherwise they were going to fire me," he said.
Raúl Soublett López is one of the promoters of an independent campaign that takes place in Cuba with the aim of drawing the attention of society in favor of the rights of LGBTI+ peopleunder the protection of the plebiscite to which the Family Code will be submitted.
This campaign takes place throughout Cuba and consists of the dissemination of materials and stickers with the multicolored flag, a symbol of sexual diversity, to reach the population and understand the need of this social minority to have legal recognition to establish links. marriages, adopting children and forming non-heteronormative families.
Harassment against activists, independent journalists and opponents has increased in recent months, a fact that worries organizations such as the Cuban Human Rights Observatory, which in May counted almost a thousand repressive actions.
"We are in the presence of a broader and more personalized repression against members of civil society. It is evident that the Cuban government wants to silence all dissidence to be the only interlocutor with the United States and the European Union. No one should accept such a state of affairs "said Yaxys Cires, Director of Strategy at the OCDH.
The Santa Clara opponent Arturo Sábado Martínez, one of the directors of the United Antitotalitarian Forum (FANTU),He was sentenced in the middle of this month to one year and six months in prisonfor the crime of “pre-criminal social danger” in the provincial court of Villa Clara.
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