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FROM
CUBA
Family members of Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva
arrested and DVD equipment confiscated
LA HABANA, Cuba, April 7 (Reinaldo Cosano
Alén, Lux Info Press / www.cubanet.org)
- On March 31, members of the jury to select
the winner of the Paloma Award, granted
by the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights,
gathered at the home of the lawyer Juan
Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, headquarters of said
human rights organization.
"Outside, an organized police operation
had been set up" - said Gonzalez Leiva
- "and when the meeting concluded,
as three members of the jury and other activists
of the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights
who were present left, the police arrested,
in the street, my cousin and guide, Santiago
Santoyo González. He was taken to
the Headquarters of the Ciego de Avila Police
where he was questioned, and a DVD equipment
he was carrying in a briefcase and which
I had lent him, was confiscated. This DVD
equipment was donated to and is property
of the independent Library Ignacio Agramonte
Loynaz, established in my home."
The president of the Cuban Foundation for
Human Rights added: "My brother Andrés
was also detained in Colorado, a rural neighborhood
where he resides, part of this province.
The police seized a small portable radio
he had that was also donated. Cuban authorities
filmed and questioned citizens in Colorado
to make believe that I was selling these
radios. The interviews at the Headquarters
of the Ciego de Avila Police were also filmed."
"That same evening, a few members
of my family and activists of the Cuban
Foundation for Human Rights accompanied
us as we appeared before the Headquarters
of the Ciego de Avila Police to demand the
liberation of my family and the return of
all they had confiscated. My cousin and
brother were finally liberated, though none
of the objects seized were returned"
- concluded González Leiva.
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