State security threatens wife of political prisoner: "We are going to take away your children"

Marineisy Martínez Villalón, wife of political prisonerEider Frometa Allen and activist of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), reported that in Guantánamo a State Security officer threatened to take away custody of her two children and monitor her.

The young woman was summoned to Parque 24 and there she waited for an instructor named Yunior, who tried to intimidate her with threats, according to a publication fromCubalex.

“He threatened to take away my boys, he even asked me how many children I had, and I told him, and he told me: 'Let's see how long your happiness with your children lasts,' Martínez said. "I told him: 'Are you threatening me that you are going to take them away from me?'" and he replied: 'Let's give it time.'"

The officer described her husband Frómeta as a “counterrevolutionary” and “criminal,” and also sexually harassed her.

“He told me: 'The proposal I'm going to make to you is that you leave him and join me,' I told him no. He asked me the question again, that I was going to do better with him, I told him that I was not going to leave my husband, much less for a guard,” Martínez said.

The political prisoner's wife pointed out that, after refusing the SE officer's proposal, he threatened her: “He told me: 'I'm going to follow up with you because you are with a counterrevolutionary,' and I told him that when I came back to make an appointment to do it two or three days in advance so that I can bring my lawyer.”

This is not the first time that Martínez and her husband have been harassed by agents of the Cuban political police.

Last January, during a conjugal visit in prison, Frómeta protested so that the authorities of the Boniato prison, in Santiago de Cuba,allow access to his wife.

The non-governmental organization Cubalex warned that Martínez's testimony identifies several crimes classified in theCuban Penal Code.

“The conduct of officer 'Yunior' is a crime of sexual harassment, provided for and sanctioned by the Cuban Penal Code with aggravated penalties of up to 5 years in prison when it involves authorities, officials or public employees against people in their care or their immediate family members. ”, specified the association that defends human rights in the country.

Cubalex warned that this is also an example of “abuse of authority” and “vicarious violence” committed by a State Security officer against the wife of a political prisoner.

The harassment and harassment by the repressive bodies of the Cuban regime against the relatives of political prisoners is not an isolated case.

Cuban Yusneilys Racet, wife of the political prisonerNosley Lázaro Domínguez Linares, denounced last December the repression she suffered in Cuba to the point of having to leave the country with her children, leaving her husband behind.

From the list of repressive actions of the SE,Racet suffered verbal and physical attacks, harassment and continuous threats.