Posted on 11/03/2022 6:19:42 PM PDT by marshmallow
Denver Newsroom, Oct 21, 2022 / 15:00 pm On Friday, the police of the dictatorship in Cuba interrogated Adrián Martínez Cádiz, EWTN correspondent in Havana, and later fined him 3,000 Cuban pesos (about $125) for having criticized the regime on social media.
The Territorial Control Office of the Cuban Ministry of Communications issued an official document in which it determined that the journalist violated Decree Law 370 by “disseminating, through public data transmission networks, information contrary to the interests of society, morals, good customs, and people’s safety.”
Therefore, continues the Oct. 21 document, “the competent authority proceeded to impose a fine for a value of 3,000” pesos.
In a statement to EWTN Noticias, Martínez said that he attended the summons at the Plaza de la Revolución Police Station around 10 a.m., where he was interrogated for an hour by a lieutenant colonel.
“He treated me very badly, he raised his voice at me in a very bad way, he told me to shut up the times I wanted to explain something,” Martínez lamented.
Martínez said that the officer “threatened several times to put me in jail for my posts on social media. … They allege that I create ‘memes’ against the president, which isn’t true.”
Before being fined, the officer began to fill out an official written warning in order for the journalist to make a commitment to the Cuban State.
“He told me that he was officially warning me that I could be criminally prosecuted if I continue to publish,” the journalist said.
According to the Cuban Penal Code, any police officer can issue a “official warning document” against a person if he perceives that he is in a “dangerous pre-criminal state” or if he has ties to “potentially dangerous people.”
The EWTN correspondent refused to “commit” and sign.......
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Should have been a state long ago. By now Trump would have built a hundred resorts there and the Cubans would have been prosperous and free. With that freedom they would have blessed the world with their Culture and Creativity..
*** the journalist violated Decree Law 370 ***
Coming soon to a country (United States) near you, but not just for journalists.
Wow he got off easy by western standards. Germany & England will throw you in prison for a couple years for that.
“He was officially warning me.” Typical pharisee and fool. Creating rules out of thin air and pretending the rules apply to other people.
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