At least six people were arrested for demonstrating in the Holguín town of San Andrés on March 8, it emerged this Friday.
A report of Martí News points out that four of the detainees were held incommunicado at the State Security headquarters in Pedernales before being transferred to prison this Thursday.
The arrests were made within the framework of an investigation for alleged crimes of contempt and public disorder due to the protests on March 8 in San Andrés, 19 kilometers from the provincial capital of Holguín.
Among those arrested are two young people, Elsa Elisa Solís Barrera and Lea Velázquez Ochoa, which were transferred to the provincial prison.
For its part, Yunior Barrera Gutiérrez, Yulier Ramírez San Juan, Reinier Reimón Peña and Warnel Ricardo, remain in custody in different facilities in the province, the publication highlights.
Cuban Blanca María Barrera Gutiérrez, mother of Elsa Elisa, said that the young woman is 20 years old and that her brother, Yunior Barrera Gutiérrez, a 48-year-old man, father of two children with intellectual disabilities, was also detained.
Activist Dámaso Alberto Fernández reported that Lea Velázquez was fined five thousand pesos and her cell phone was confiscated two days after the protest, and she was arrested the next day.
In the demonstration, the residents of San Andrés demanded freedom and gathered in the town park to ring the saucepans in protest of blackouts and food shortages on the island.
Mass protests also occurred last Sunday in Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Sancti Spirits and Cienfuegos.
Protesters demand electricity, food and freedoms.
Although the regime has denied the repression of the protests, the people of Santiago denounced that dozens of young people were detained there.
On Monday, some were still in the streets calling for the release of those detained on Sunday.
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