The Cuban activistDiasniurka Salcedo Verdecia, which wasdetained For a few hours this Thursday with her husband after a search of their home, she reported that they even confiscated her and her children's medications and that they treated her like the criminal she is not.
In a message posted onFacebook, Salcedo Verdecia specified that he was searched because, as the regime authorities argued,"link of the counterrevolution."
"Several things that were not mine but belonged to my workers, and also mine and my children's medications, were confiscated."denounced the activist, who specified that she was summoned for Monday, June 6, the day on which, according to what she was told, "her situation will be defined."
"They fined me for lack of respect and the only thing I did was ask for freedom. I was treated like a criminal that I am not. They closed everything, no one left or entered. It was one more big piece of shit from this dictatorship!"concluded Salcedo Verdecia, who accompanied his statement with two very short videos.
In one of them it is seen that the Police take a very old computer monitor from her house while in another the activist is heard shouting "Patria y Vida" and asking for freedom for the Cuban political prisoners.
After beingreleased, Salcedo made a live broadcast onFacebook in which she thanked those who cared about her.
While she was being taken to a police station, Salcedo Verdecia managed to make a live broadcast in which she assured that those "murderers, criminals, gangsters, thieves" were taking her to prison for thinking differently.
"It's not fair that you imprison a woman for thinking differently, you don't have food, medicine for your children, you don't have anything either. Why are you imprisoning me?" the activist even questioned, addressing her captors directly.
“We live in a dictatorship", she reiterated this Thursday after being released, and added that despite the arrest and the detailed search, she was physically well.
Recognized for her constant fight to manage medicines and aid to people in need in Cuba, the activist explained that in recent times she has stayed a little away from public attention because she has health problems and personal situations that prevent her from being more active on the internet.
As with other opponents, Diasniurka Salcedo has a long history of attacks by State Security that include arrests, surveillance and also fines.
She has also been harassed several times by the police for the type of humanitarian work she carries out.In September 2020 she was violently arrested when he was preparing to deliver some medicine to people who live in extreme poverty with a child with a heart condition.
A few months later, at the beginning of 2021,They imposed a fine of 2,000 pesos during an inspection considering that he was carrying out his hairdressing activity “illegally”. In March of last year, she was detained for a few hours by plainclothes officers, who, after several threats, left her lying in the middle of a mountain.
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