Cuban opposition figure released after almost 2 days under arrest

Cuban opposition figure released after almost 2 days under arrest
Published August 15, 2012
EFE

Former political prisoner Angel Moya was released after almost two days
in the custody of Cuban State Security, he told Efe.

Moya, 47, was arrested along with four other dissidents, who have also
been released, on Sunday afternoon in the town of Pedro Betancourt, 173
kilometers (107 miles) east of Havana.

He said the arrests was effected "in a violent manner" when State
Security officers were conducting a raid of the house of Felix Sierra, a
member of the Democratic Freedom for Cuba Movement that Moya heads.

On Tuesday, Moya's wife Berta Soler told Efe that the dissidents were in
front of the residence together with another group of neighbors when
State Security agents "started hitting them, shoved them into cars and
took them to the police station."

"We staged an act of being present to observe and provide moral and
political support to Felix," Moya said.

Moya said that all the arrested dissidents had been released, but Sierra
was formally cautioned for allegedly possessing "subversive propaganda,"
and Edelvis Granda and Dagoberto Santana, activists with the Alternative
Option group, were warned for creating "public disorder."

"They didn't say the reason why we were arrested, but we suspect that
the cause was the campaign undertaken by the Option Movement called
'Prayer for life' and for the supposed informative material that Felix
Sierra had, (which was) to be distributed as part of the campaign," he
added.

In addition, he said that since January he had been arrested five times
for several hours or a couple of days each, as occurred this time.

Moya was sentenced to 20 years in prison during the government crackdown
that sent 75 dissidents to jail in the "Black Spring" of 2003, and he
was finally released in 2011 on parole as part of the process of freeing
political prisoners achieved with the mediation of the Cuban Catholic
Church and the Spanish government. EFE

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