Lester Fernández Elizastigui, brother of the political prisonerLuis Robles Elizastigui, was arrested and is in prison for an alleged case of attempted illegal departure from the country.
Yindra Church, mother of the young people, reported on social networks that her second son, Lester, was arrested on December 19 when he was with a group of people who were building a boat in Havana. He is currently imprisoned in the Valle Grande Penitentiary Center.
He explained to Lester that on the day of his arrest he was transferred to the Cojímar National Revolutionary Police (PNR) Unit. In that place a State Security officer asked him if he was the brother ofLuis Robles.
"Coincidences happen very rarely in life. Lester is currently in Valle Grande, where he was transferred on December 23 and is still there. Along with him, they arrested 6 or 7 people, and released them with a fine of 3 thousand pesos have been free on the street since December 19," said Yindra.
Lester and another person from the group of detainees were transferred to Villa Marista, where the State Security Directorate is located. The mother does not understand why they have had this behavior with him, which she claims is due to her filial bond with Luis Robles.
"Is this perhaps retaliation for beingLester Fernández Elizastiguibrother ofLuis Robles Elizastigui? "I want to make the world aware of Lester's arrest for attempted illegal departure, so called because State Security wants it, because Lester was not caught at sea, they found him participating in the construction of a boat," said the mother.
Unlike the other detainees who received fines of 3,000 pesos and were released the same day, in Lester's case the penalty is 7,000 pesos and he remains in prison. The political police told Yindra that the fine is forillegal construction of a boat.
"As a motherI will continue to report because, as everyone knows, my son Luis Robles is suffering imprisonment for an unjust sentence of five years in prison," said Yindra.
This Monday, the Elizastiguis' mother published photos of her children on Facebook and denounced the State's repression against her family.
"It seems that it is not enough for them to make me suffer for one and now they have the other (in prison). Enough is enough.I won't give up until I see them free. Freedom for my children. Luis Robles Elizastigui and Lester Fernández Elizastigui and for all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience," he said.
Luis Robles Elizastigui wassentenced to five years in prison for the alleged crimes of enemy propaganda and disobedience, after peacefully demonstrating in December 2020 on San Rafael Boulevard, in Havana, with a sign calling for the end of repression and the freedom of rapper Denis Solís.
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