"Activists, independent journalists and relatives of political prisoners in Cuba reported on Tuesday [Aug. 5] that they were briefly detained or prevented from leaving their homes by state security agents on the anniversary of the ‘Maleconazo,’ the only protest that former president Fidel Castro faced while ruling the island. […] There was ‘surveillance, house arrests, arbitrary detention and selective internet cuts,’ reported X Cubalex, a Miami-based NGO.
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The government ‘activated its repressive apparatus’ as ‘the police pattern repeats itself’ on dates that are sensitive for the government, said Yoani Sánchez, director of the independent newspaper 14ymedio, on X.
Sánchez reported that her husband, Reinaldo Escobar, also a journalist for the digital newspaper, 'was detained for a couple of hours in Havana,' while independent journalist Camila Acosta told AFP that a State Security officer had been stationed at the entrance to her home since early in the morning."
