While the trials against the artists Luis Manuel Otero and Maykel Castillo are taking place in Havana, the Cuban activist Andy García Lorenzo was transferred to the work camp where he must finish serving his four-year sentence for participating in the social outbreak of September 11. July (11J) in Santa Clara.
His sister, Roxana García Lorenzo,reported on Facebook that the young manHe was arrested last Monday in public "without giving arguments, without giving explanations, without telling us anything, without notifying the family."
"Today we were told that tomorrow he had to join the open (regime), he had to show up at the place, in the field, where he had to work, where his sentence, his unjust sentence, would end. (...)", the sister said. However, the authorities were the ones in charge of taking him to the site.
Shortly before, García Lorenzo and his father had gone to the Guamajal prison, where the 11J protester was imprisoned before being released last week, to collect some belongings that were left there. After this, both were arrested.
"The patrol detained them, a police patrol with (State) Security agents in charge of this entire operation, without giving any explanation. My father, Nedel García Pacheco, and my brother Andy García Lorenzo were detained, and the family was not informed, we did not find out anything"; assured Roxana García.
The sister also stated that if they found out about the arrest it was because it was witnessed by a cousin, who ran behind the patrol car to try to find out where they could be taken and then notified the family members.
Roxana García explained that they managed to locate them in the Fifth Unit of the National Revolutionary Police, where they were able to see Andy García for a few moments, barefoot, handcuffed and surrounded by officers. "My brother was the one who started telling me: 'They revoked me, they revoked me.' That was the only thing Andy told me."
The officers then informed the young man's family that the reason for the arrest was that they should not have gone to the prison to collect their belongings. Something that the relatives considered "an absurd excuse", since they assured that other former inmates had gone to Guamajal to collect their belongings and nothing had happened to them.
Roxana García indicated that they also went to the place where Andy García had to appear to serve the rest of his four-year sentence for participating in the popular protests of 2021 and there they were told that he was in the infirmary; although they were not told the reason why he would be under medical care.
The young man had planned to undergo tests for possible health problems with his kidneys that lead him to urinate blood, but after the arrest he was unable to access a doctor.
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