A Cuban woman who was kidnapped by a man for a month in Tenerife has been rescued.

The Spanish police released a Cuban woman on Tuesday who had been locked up for at least a month in a house in the town of Tejina, in San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Tenerife, by a man who also abused her.

José Javier López, inspector of the Local Police of La Laguna, explained that around 11:30 a.m. on June 11th, a neighbor called the police alerting that she had received some notes from a woman asking for help.

The agents went to the indicated house and found a man who said that nothing was happening, but a woman in the house stated that she had been held captive for a month since she arrived from Cuba.

The woman detailed to the authorities that the man had taken her passport and that she had been a victim of repeated mistreatment.

The man was arrested and has been brought before a judge, while the Cuban woman has received medical attention at the Tejina health center.

The Local Police has praised the citizen collaboration to fight against violence and has encouraged the public to report when there is suspicion that a woman may be a victim of gender-based violence.

As of the closing of this report, no other details regarding the case are known.

The identity of neither of the two individuals involved nor the immigration status of the Cuban woman has been disclosed.

In March, the Spanish police dismantled a network of sexual exploitation in Granada that forced immigrants from Cuba and Colombia into prostitution.

In that case, four people were arrested - two women and two men between 24 and 45 years old - who were part of a criminal network dedicated to trafficking women for sexual exploitation in an apartment in that Andalusian city, according to the EFE agency.

The victims -three women and one man- were constantly monitored with cameras and forced to offer drugs provided by a Colombian man who had a cocaine laboratory, which was also dismantled in the same police operation.

The individuals took advantage of the victims' vulnerable situation, who were residing irregularly in Spain, to force them into prostitution.