The family of Despingovery Channel creator Eddy Ceballos revealed to independent journalist Ernesto Morales that the cameraman who worked with him on the episode filmed at an old Soviet military base has also been detained.
"We don't know on what charges, because he was released long after Eddy was arrested, but we do know that they have him in custody now as well," they pointed out.
In the same communication, the family members confirmed to Morales that the Cuban State Security confiscated all the clothing and items that the comedian was wearing on the day he recorded the episode for which he remains incarcerated, labeling them as "evidence" of an alleged crime.
According to the complaint published on Facebook, the agents took the camouflage hat with headlamp, the utility vest, the glasses, the black gloves, and the shirt that Ceballos was wearing during the recording. The phone used to film the episode and the camera stabilizer were also confiscated.
"We had to surrender absolutely all the clothing and equipment he brought that day," Morales conveyed, who has been the main channel of communication between the family and the public since Ceballos' arrest on June 1.
The family interpreted the measure as a sign that the regime lacks real arguments to support the case: "Since they have no evidence of a crime, they are trying to see what they can grasp at. They have no case against him and are trying to figure out what to invent."
Ceballos, 38 years old, was arrested in the Diez de Octubre municipality of Havana during a large police operation that prevented him from entering his home or notifying his wife Daniela Escarra.
The trigger was the publication, on May 24, of a preview of what he himself called his "most warlike chapter": a tour of an abandoned military installation featuring Soviet missiles from the 1960s, radars, and Cold War bunkers.
On June 5, he was transferred to the Eastern Combined High-Security Penitentiary Center.
The authorities initially communicated to the family that he would be charged with "invasion of military property," a charge that Cubalex reported does not exist in any of the current penal codes.
Subsequently, the case escalated to an accusation of "disclosure of secrets related to State Security", punishable by a military court with sentences of up to 30 years in prison.
The mother of Ceballos, Marieta Pérez Alfaro, reported on June 17 that her son was physically assaulted while he was detained, and described the prison, in Eddy's own words, as "the prelude to hell, a place of much suffering."
"The fact that they are taking this to extreme levels, accusing him of espionage, confirms that they want to silence him, they want to use him as an example," the mother stated to Telemundo 51.
On Father's Day, the young man's wife published a heart-wrenching letter on Instagram in which she accused the regime of "breaking a family" to silence a voice.
The case of Ceballos fits into a pattern of increasing repression against digital creators in Cuba.
The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press recorded 69 arbitrary detentions of journalists in January 2026 alone, a 430% increase compared to the same month in 2025.
Cuba ranks 160th out of 180 in the 2026 Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders.
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