Cuban Writer Angel Santiesteban Arrested

Cuban Writer Angel Santiesteban Arrested / 14ymedio

14ymedio, Havana, 14 June 2016 – The writer Angel Santiesteban was
arrested on Monday afternoon shortly after he left his home. The blogger
is in a cell at the police station located at the corner of Zapata and C
in the Plaza municipality, according to the information from the police
offered by telephone.

Recently, Santiesteban received the Reinaldo Arenas Narrative Prize,
awarded by the Club of Independent Writers of Cuba and he is now in what
he called "a creative phase" that consumes all his time.

According to telephone calls made by family and friends to police
authorities, Santiesteban was arrested because "they had tracked him"
from the Isle of Youth.

The winner, also, of the Casa de las Américas Prize (2006) was on parole
awaiting the outcome of an appeal for review of his case by the Ministry
of Justice; he recently served several years in prison for "violation of
domicile and injuries." In the trial in that case, which was denounced
as a process full of irregularities, he had been sentenced to five
years' imprisonment.

Since the appeal was filed for review of his case, Santiesteban has been
arrested on several occasions, including for participating in the Sunday
marches of the Ladies in White.

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