Regime Forces Assault 6 houses of UNPACU Members UNPACU - March 10, 2017
At dawn on March 8th, repressive forces of the regime, led by the political police (Department of State Security) assaulted 6 houses of members of the Patriotic Union of Cuba. Of these, 5 were in the city Santiago de Cuba and 1 in the municipality Palma Soriano. With more than a hundred Interior Ministry officers (MININT), and dozens of patrol cars, they burst into the houses simultaneously with search warrants that allegedly were after technological equipment, large sums of money, enemy propaganda and "objects of dubious origin”; however, not only laptops, mobile and wireless phones, cash and other means of work were stolen, but also medicines, a frezzer and large quantities of food purchased from state establishments to be consumed daily by activists visiting headquarters and also for the neediest people in the community.
During the assaults, 17 activists and coordinators were detained, of which Jorge Cervantes García, Juan Salgado, and Esquizander Benítez Moya, are still in jail. The latter is a resident of one of the domiciles assaulted.
Since December 18, 2016, 42 houses of members of UNPACU have been searched by repressive organs of the dictatorship of Raúl Castro.
Searched Houses 2 UNPACU Headquerters Houses belonging to: Carlos Amel Oliva Torres and his wife Katherine Mojena Hernández, Yriades Hernández Aguilera, Carlos Oliva Rivery , Esquizander Benítez Moya.
List of detainees Coordinators 1. José Daniel Ferrer García 2. Yriades Hernández Aguilera 3. Carlos Amel Oliva Torres 4. Jorge Cervantes García (still under arrest) 5. Carlos Oliva Rivery Activists 6. Juan Salgado (still under arrest) 7. Ermito Morán Sánchez 8. Roilán Sárraga 9. Omar Sayut Taquechel 10. Dailis Nelli Ficher Martínez 11. Gretchen Alfonso Torres 12. Alexeis Martínez Vaillant 13. Liettys Rachel Reyes Tur 14. Lauribel Leyva 15. David Fernández Cardoso 16. Fernando González Vaillant 17. Esquizander Benítez Moya (still under arrest)
List of stolen objects 3 laptops 5 cell phones 7 wireless phones 1 music player 1 electric typewriter 1 nano station 1 camera 1 SD card, 32GB 7 flash memories 1 printer 1 Tablet 2 radios 1 hard drive Over 1000 printed pages with UNPACU information Over 100 DVD’s with information about UNPACU 3000 pages 12 folders Over 10 books 1000 cuc = 970 USD
Medicine
Food 200 pounds of rice 150 pounds of beans 100 pounds of sugar 20 pounds of powder milk 28 pounds of salt 40 pounds of vegetables 230 pounds of pork 60 pounds of chicken 5 pounds of fish 20 liters of cooking oil 30 packs of noodles 25 pounds of white flour 20 liters of yogurt Tableware (glasses, cutlery, etc.)
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