State Security is Outside 14ymedio’s Newsroom

State Security is Outside 14ymedio's Newsroom / 14ymedio
Posted on December 10, 2015

14ymedio, Havana, 10 December 2015 – State Security agents who
introduced themselves as members of counterintelligence are outside
14ymedio's newsroom right now to keep our reporters from covering the
events of Human Rights Day, celebrated this Thursday.

Several neighbors sounded the alert when, from the early hours of the
morning, they saw two men sitting on the stairs that lead to the 14th
floor, where the newsroom is located. The subjects, dressed in civilian
clothes with earpieces in their right ears, have stayed there since
dawn, controlling everyone who ascends or descends the last floor of the
building.

Yesterday, Wednesday, several groups of activists denounced the arrests
and searches throughout the country. The executive secretary of the
Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), José Daniel Ferrer, reported the
arrest of 12 members of that organization in Camagüey, and that of the
cell coordinator Roberto Ferrer in Havana. The activist reported an
operation in front of the UNPACU headquarters and a Communist Party fair
"with repressive purposes" outside the national headquarters of the
Ladies in White in Lawton.

The dissident and blogger Agustin Lopez also announced that he will
repeat his action of last year, consisting of distributing sheets with
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a central location in the
capital.

The situation against 14ymedio is a repeat for the second consecutive.
On December 10, 2014 a strong police operation was maintained around the
newsroom and, in addition, two reporters from this paper were arrested,
Luz Escobar and Victor Ariel Gonzalez.

On Thursday, when the editor-in-chief of this newspaper, Reinaldo
Escobar, tried to get to the elevator to go outside, the following
exchange occurred with the two guards:

– Hey, Reinaldo, we are with CI and we are warning you, you are not
going out today

– What is CI?

– Don't be silly you know.

– Constructors Integrated?

– No, State Security.

– But the acronyms for State Security are others, the one I know is SE.

– It is the same.

– No, it's not the same, and beware lest the weight of the law fall on
you for passing yourselves off as a being from an organization that you
aren't.

– Well, the most important thing here is that you are not going out.

– And why?

– Because today is Human Rights Day and you know it.

– Do you have a warrant or any paper that you can show me where it says
that?

– No, but you are not going out.

– Well, you'll have to stay here until midnight … because I'm going out
at some point.

– You're not going to leave, that we assure you.

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