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The Cuban regime frustrated the scheduled family visit this Friday to content creator Eddy Ceballos ("Despingovery") by transferring him overnight from Combinado del Este to the detention center of State Security known as "100 y Aldabó," according to his mother, Marieta Pérez Alfaro, publicly stated.
The transfer occurred on Friday night, just hours before the family members arrived for the visit with prepared food and canned goods ready to deliver.
"The food was prepared, the canned goods out of the container, etc. All useless, our illusion (and theirs, even more importantly) shattered," wrote Marieta Pérez Alfaro on her Facebook account, where she follows her son's case.
The mother described the relocation as something "casual"—with evident irony—and warned that the family must begin "another round of investigations and another cycle of waiting to see when we'll get to see him, regardless of how he survives this time and how much they have broken his spirit."
“100 y Aldabó”, popularly known as “100 y Se Acabó” due to the difficulty of escaping from there, is not a prison for sentencing but a center for interrogation and preventive detention of the State Security located in Havana.
Its systematic use against political prisoners, journalists, and demonstrators is well-documented: journalist Camila Acosta was detained there following the protests on July 11, 2021, as was Spanish politician Ángel Carromero in 2012.
The nighttime transfer to prevent family visits is a documented tactic of the Cuban prison system to isolate detainees and psychologically pressure them.
Ceballos has been detained for more than 40 days since his arrest on June 1, 2026, in the Diez de Octubre municipality, Havana, after publishing a video in which he explored an abandoned military facility with Soviet missiles, radars, and Cold War bunkers.
The regime accuses him of "revealing secrets concerning State Security" (Article 116, Section 3 of the Penal Code), a charge that is prosecutable in a military court and carries penalties ranging from 10 to 30 years, life imprisonment, or even the death penalty.
The organization Cubalex reported that the initial charge of "invasion of military property" does not even exist in the current Cuban Penal Code, which highlights the arbitrariness of the process.
On June 17, his mother reported that Eddy was physically assaulted while he was detained, and his wife Daniela Escarra has posted letters on social media stating that there are no real grounds for the sanction and that their daughter is waiting for him at home.
The cameraman who worked with Ceballos, Christian Rodríguez Riverón was also arrested in connection with the same case.
As a month has passed since his arrest, the mother publicly demanded the release of her son and reported that the espionage accusations were losing ground, without any response from the regime.
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