Cuba: the repression of the regime intensifies a few hours before the constitutional referendum

Detentions, quotes from the political police, visits of MININT officers and monitoring their homes is the scenario that observers of the electoral process are facing 48 hours after the vote on the constitutional referendum.

In Havana were arrested Thursday, threatened and released, the director Adonis Milan, who supports Cuba Decide and is observer, as well as the director of communication of Candidates for Change, Luis Alberto Diéguez and, in Santiago de Cuba, the observer of the candidates, Marcos Díaz remains in detention Friday, announced his wife Yailín Roque.

For their part, in Palma Soriano, they were visited and summoned by members of the Ministry of the Interior, Niurka Carmona, COPE national vice-coordinator, observer of the electoral process, as well as by Osmay Vázquez Aranda, Observer of the Council of the Democratic Action Unit.

During his stay in Havana, Juan Manuel Moreno, executive secretary of Candidates for Change, and the coordinator of the Cuban Commission for Election Observers, Zelandia de la Caridad Abreu, provided all-day surveillance around their homes. service interruptions. phone

With information from Martí News