A young man was brutally beaten by police and guards at the exit of a recreational center in Havana.
“The young man Odil Yordan Sánchez Coello was beaten by violent people who call themselves guards and by police who went to this recreational center in Havana. Detained, the parents were able to see him after 5 days and according to authorities he will be taken directly to prison," The Cuban Human Rights Observatory denounced on Facebook.
This organization shared a video where you can see the crowd around the young man, who remains on the floor, and who is then approached by two police officers who appear to arrest or assist him.
Reports of police violence in Cuba have become increasingly frequent on social networks.
At the end of April,A young Cuban was a victim of police abuse in Ciego de Ávila,where two officers who shouted “I am Fidel” beat him.
The violent event occurred in Plaza Camilo, in the Ciego de Ávila municipality, when two police officers yelled at a young black man - who has not been identified - and gave him severe blows when taking him to the patrol car.
In January,A 30-year-old young man would have died in Santiago de Cuba after a beating by a police officer of that town.
The victim, identified as Sergio Pozo Hernández, was with his family on Caletón beach, in Santiago de Cuba, when the incident occurred, said his girlfriend, Claudia Esther Ramírez.
He said that that day he was on the beach with some friends and family, when a robbery occurred and the police moved to the scene to catch the thief, who was immediately arrested.
However, at that moment Pozo Hernández passed by on his motorcycle “by where the patrol car was and the officer gave him a signal to stop, but my boyfriend did not have a driver's license and tried to continue.”
The woman explained that "the officer's reaction was to throw a chair at him with the engine running and he, in a reflex act of avoiding the object, turned to the opposite path" along which a truck was coming and hit him.
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