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They search the house of a young Cuban who recorded beating girls during protests in Nuevitas

Mayelín Rodríguez Prado was arrested on August 20 and on the 21st she was transferred to the State Security facilities in Camagüey. The authorities accuse her of public disorder.

Mayelín Rodríguez Prado © Facebook/ Mayelín Rodríguez Prado
Mayelín Rodríguez Prado Photo © Facebook/ Mayelín Rodríguez Prado

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This Monday, the Cuban government ordered the search of the house ofthe young Cuban Mayelín Rodríguez Prado, who is detained after recording the beating that agents of the National Revolutionary Police gave to three girls during themassive protests in Nuevitas.

In exclusive live interview withCyberCubaNelkys Prado Méndez, mother of the girl, known on social networks as La Chamaca, said that on this day the provincial court of Camagüey did not respond to the Habeas Corpus request that they had presented to achieve the freedom of Rodríguez Prado, who , in addition toviolence against small, recorded other moments of the repression unleashed against the protesters.

Prado Méndez added that his brother is the one who is staying at his daughter's house and that this morning, when trying to enter the house with his wife, they encountered two State Security agents who did not allow him entry.

She also reported that her mother, the grandmother of the young opponent, was also interrogated at the Nuevitas police unit and they made her go to the aforementioned house to proceed with the search. "I'm already desperate, Mayelín has been imprisoned for nine days, nothing is said, I thought that something was going to be defined today with the result of the Habeas Corpus and it turns out that they don't say anything," added Prado Méndez in the direct.

He highlighted that this Monday his sister, the grandmother and the girl under one year old from Rodríguez Prado, went to the provincial capital to try to visit the girl and that they did not allow the little girl to see her mother, without offering any explanation or reason for why. that refusal.

“I am aware as a mother that Mayelín has done everything from the heart, she has simply recorded, Mayelín has never wanted violence, I know that my daughter has nothing in the house that compromises (...) because my daughter would not be able to do any of those things,” Prado Méndez added and stressed that if they found any evidence during the search it was because the police themselves planted it to incriminate her.

He said his biggest fearis that they ultimately open criminal proceedings against the young woman and that she ends up serving a sanction that she does not deserve., because he did not commit any crime. He also stated that the lawyer handling the case says that the charge against him is public disorder and that in the interrogations carried out on the little girls who were violated by the police, whoever they say that their daughter forced them to say that they had struck.

“But the evidence speaks for itself and the video is there and Mayelín is recording all the time and they are attacking the people, attacking the girls and at that precise moment everything is very clear,” he noted regarding this possible accusation. against his daughter.

On a previous occasion, Prado Méndez, who resides in the United States,She had said she was devastated by her daughter's arrest.. "At this moment I would like to be there, close to her. I feel like I can't do anything from here. My soul is destroyed. This is something that no one can imagine, the pain that a mother can feel when she has a child imprisoned and knowing that they can ask for many years," he stated on August 22, a few hours after the massive protests that broke out in Nuevitas and that provoked terrible repression by the Cuban government.

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