Asdrúbal Kindelán Garbey, who participated in the protests of March 17 in Santiago de Cuba, was arrested this Wednesday after responding to a police summons in the unit known as El Palacete, in the eastern city.
His wife, Arlet Perera, said that officials from the Technical Department of Investigations (DTI) summoned him for 8:00 am, "but now when we arrive they tell us that they are going to arrest him and transfer him to the Versalles unit," he reported. Martí News.
They asked for the reasons, but the officers said they did not know the reasons, "only that it comes from 'up there', that they just detain him and transfer him," Perera explained.
On March 23, Kindelán was arrested when he was protesting the arrest of his son Cristian Osmauri Kindelán, and the latter is still detained in the Versailles police operations unit (State Security), according to the aforementioned media.
A week ago Kindelán Sr. was released with a bail of 50 thousand pesos.
Now the authorities accuse him of "contempt" for demonstrating peacefully alongside hundreds of Cubans who demanded "water", "food", "current" and "freedom", reported Martí News.
This Tuesday the family of the 18-year-old young man went to the scene and did not give him any explanations about the teenager's case: "They say absolutely nothing, simply that we had to wait and that they are investigating it," Perera explained.
Kindelán denounced this week that the repressors threatened to have a video of his son inciting violence.
However, he questioned the existence of this test because it is not taught and, in addition, he stated that during the demonstration he was always next to his son and with his other two-year-old girl in his arms.
"They are going to do whatever they want with me. They can arrest me, they can even take my life, but for my son's freedom I am going to fight until the end," he said.
Father and son were two of the hundreds of people who took to the streets in Santiago de Cuba to protest the suffocating economic crisis that the country is experiencing and demand political changes.
Both were among the victims of the repression unleashed by the regime after the protests.
Independent organizations registered more than a dozen arrests of people who They took to the streets on March 17 and 18 in Santiago de Cuba, according to Martí News.
In its most recent report, the Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC) warned that after this social outbreak, the violent response of the state increased more than usual.
He also reported that in March there were 654 complaints and protests in Cuba demanding food, electricity and freedom.
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