State security threatens Cuban Yordanka Battle for "instigation to commit a crime"

State Security threatened to prosecute the young Cuban Yordanka Battle for the crime of "incitement to commit a crime", in an attempt to censor their social media posts.

Heharassment against the young woman has grown since October of last year, when she was fired from her job at a state companyfor making criticisms on Facebook about the precarious situation in the country and inflation.

After leaving ainterrogation to which she was summoned This Wednesday she said that during the process two State Security agents told her that the reason for the summons was to warn her that she could be accused based on the aforementioned crime for her virtual complaints.

"You are calling on the masses, and this can be understood as a crime of instigation to commit a crime," they told him. Then, the agent took out one of his publications where the young woman reported: "I was summoned by the police to the Zapata and C station on 02/15 at 8:30 AM. Spread the word."

The officials of the Cuban regime tried to make him believe that in that phrase there was a call to commit a crime, but Battle assures that he was able to defend himself against the accusation due to his knowledge of the new Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Law."

"I didn't have to be there, because I haven't committed any crime," said the young woman, who has spent sleepless nights due to harassment from the regime, which has even questioned her followers on Facebook.

In her direct statement after the interrogation and threats, the activist stated that she would continue publishing on networks because she has not committed any crime, she uses her personal phone for it and pays for the internet to Etecsa, "very expensive," she said.

On this Wednesday morning the Cuban regimearrested several activists who accompanied Battle Moré and the artist Adelth Bonne Gamboa to their respective interrogations. Among them Rosmery Almeda (Alma Poet); the plastic artist Yulier Rodríguez and Yamilka Lafita.

Battle was fired from her job at a state-owned company in October for criticizing the country's precarious situation on social media. Before being expelled for her ideas about the harsh Cuban reality, she exploded on social networks denouncing the shortages and the government's terrible management to address the lack of food in the country.

Her statements were not well received by the regime and since then they have begun to repress her in various ways, with police presence in front of her house, with dismissal from her job and now with summons for interrogation.

In January he reported the harassment of the Cuban police against his home and family, after verifying thatan officer from the Ministry of the Interior was watching her, hidden in a dark portal.