two daily interrogations, beatings and the possibility to tell what is happening

The correspondent of ABC newspaper from Spain, Camila Acosta, was arrested Monday and released only this Friday by Cuban security forces, amid the increasingly acute and tense crisis that the Caribbean country is going through. After partially regaining her freedom, due to the fact that she will have to stay at home under a sort of house arrest, the journalist gave details of the four days she was imprisoned.

Acosta said it was subjected to two daily interrogations, in which they questioned him about his profession, his family and the demonstrations in which he participated.

In her first testimony outside of detention centers, Acosta told ABC that she “I wanted to be imprisoned because it was a unique opportunity to find out what was going on inside, all the stories. “

“Since Wednesday, there have been about two (interrogations) a day, lasting over an hour, during which they questioned me about my job, my family, the event I attended … I admitted that I went there and recorded, and I did a live broadcast for CubaNet, ”he said.

“They tried to underestimate me by saying that I was not important, that I was not a journalist, that practiced the profession illegally, that I did not have a contract with ABC and CubaNet, and that even these media had denied that I worked with them. This ABC had said that it did not have a correspondent in Havana, ”Acosta explained.

And she added about those times when, as she pointed out, the police tried to manipulate her, “I knew that wasn’t true, because I’m not new to questioning. I know I have to interpret the opposite of everything they say. . Also they pressured me to accept and sign pledging me to pay the fine, which I didn’t, and that’s why they put me under house arrest. Something I also refused to sign. The only thing I signed was the certificate of my release. ”

Acosta was released on Friday but will remain detained at her home for the duration of the investigation against her. Police accuse him of trigger protests. According to the journalist, she will only be able to leave her home to buy what is necessary and must be far from any airport.

The Iberian media correspondent assured that the most shocking thing about her days of detention was “to learn from the experiences of the detainees”: “There was a mother with her two daughters, who were arrested on the day of the demonstration and who they were severely beaten“, he clarified.

He also said that “among the detainees there were other women who had approached the site of the demonstrations. out of curiosity and had been arrested, and their families did not know where they were “and” was also there a pregnant woman, who sought medical treatment but was refused. They gave it to him when they put it in my cell. “

Acosta, who had participated in the protests to cover them in a journalistic way, was intercepted Monday in Havana when he left his house do a personal procedure.

A few hours before, Sunday had suffered block WhatsApp and Internet, like many colleagues and citizens.

On more than one occasion, Acosta stressed that despite her detention, she was not afraid and would continue to report what is happening in this country: “I will continue to practice my profession. I’m not going to stop reporting. We must continue to report because there are still many people detained, and their families do not know where they are. I wanted to be imprisoned because it was a unique opportunity to find out what was going on inside, all the stories. But I knew, when they tried to come to an agreement with me, that the pressure outside was very strong, ”he condemned.

The protests in Cuba have left at least one dead, dozens injured and more than 100 detained. Although the government does not want to give figures, some organizations speak of nearly 400 arrested, some of whom have already been released.

A mobilization to support the Revolution

The opposite to the protests against the Cuban government was the mobilization that Raúl Castro himself led this Saturday, in an attempt to support the Revolution.

In front of a crowd summoned at dawn through universities and official entities, President Miguel Díaz-Canel reproached the “enemy” for “having gone out with everything to destroy the sacred citizen unit”, although ‘at the same time he called for the “self-criticism and fight your own” mistakes “, in the midst of a massive event.

Government supporters were summoned to the area known as La Piragua, on the Malecón, across from the Vedado neighborhood and very close to the US Embassy headquarters.

With Cuban flags and the July 26 Movement, photographs of the late Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl, the crowd chanted slogans in favor of the Revolution.