Fariñas, leader of the illegal United Anti-Totalitarian Front (Fantu), was going to his mother’s home accompanied by his sister Raisa.
Cuban opponent Guillermo Fariñas, winner of the European Parliament Sakharov Prize, was arrested on Tuesday outside his house in the city of Santa Clara (center) and the reason for this is unknown, his mother, Alicia Hernández, told EFE.
Fariñas, leader of the illegal United Anti-Totalitarian Front (Fantu), was going to his mother’s house accompanied by his sister Raisa, when his arrest by State security agents who were stationed in the vicinity took place, according to with the story of Hernández.
“He came to my house to apply a medicine. They did not let him go up, they put the handcuffs on him and took him away. So far we have not heard anything. We are waiting to see what happens,” said the mother of the opponent by phone from Santa Clara, located about 300 kilometers east of Havana.
He recalled that the dissident has gone through similar situations on previous occasions and hours later he has been released, as happened last September.
Fariñas, is a 59-year-old psychologist who in 2010 received the Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament for the fight in favor of human rights.
The general coordinator of Fantu is one of the Cuban opponents best known internationally for the numerous hunger strikes he has held in protest against the Cuban system since the first in 1995, the longest in 2003, when he fasted for 14 months, and number 25 – which took place in 2016 and lasted for 54 days to ask the Government to end the repression against dissidents.
The Cuban Government, for its part, considers dissidents “counterrevolutionaries” and “mercenaries” at the service of the interests of the United States and denies that it has political prisoners in its jails. (I)
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