Cuban journalist José Luis Tan Estrada is fined for publications on networks “against leaders”

The Cuban journalist and professorJosé Luis Tan Estrada He was interrogated by the Cuban State Security and fined by the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) for his “likes to memes, comments, likes to other publications, shared memes” on social networks.

This Tuesday, April 16, Tan Estrada attended his “second summons from the political police in less than 72 hours,” as he reported in his profile.Facebook.

Before entering the interrogation, the man from Camagüey had to take off “everything he was wearing, except his pants,” because the officers wanted to search him “even his handkerchief.”

“I was assisted by the same police officer from Saturday, who told me that a few minutes before, they had met with the community group in the area where I live, to inform them of my 'subversive activity',” the young man said.

Likewise, he assured that a Telecommunications inspector fined him 3,000 pesos for violating Decree Law 370, used by the regime to silence activists, journalists and citizens in general.

The woman showed him “a folder full of my posts on Facebook, X (Twitter), likes on memes, comments, likes on other posts, shared memes, even some from last year. According to the inspector, 'you like funny things against the leaders,'" Tan said.

Henry Constantin, a friend and colleague of Tan, accompanied him to the police station, although he had to “wait outside” when he was thrown out of the area.

“Once again, the repressive and harassing hands of the Cuban regime to try to silence all of us who raise our voices against its constant violations of human rights,” he said about this fact.

In a recent summons on Saturday, State Security threatened the reporter with charging him with the crimes of “incitement, disobedience or contempt” if he continued his work as an independent journalist.

“The objective of the summons: to threaten me for the activities I carry out in the province regarding the issue of aid and to stop publishing on social networks,” he said on his profile.Facebook.

At the beginning of FebruaryTan Estrada was arrested and the donations confiscated that the young man had collected for people in need.

In a post titled "Help: a threat to State Security" the reporter reported that the repressors detained him when leaving his house and "took away his cell phone and his backpack, in which he carried medications, mainly insulin, and donations." for children at the Pediatric Hospital".