Writer Angel Santiesteban is Released

Writer Angel Santiesteban is Released / 14ymedio
Posted on November 5, 2015

14ymedio, Havana, 5 November 2015 — The writer Angel Santiesteban was
released Thursday after appearing before the Provincial Court of
Havana. The journalist had been arrested yesterday afternoon, accused by
his ex-wife of the supposed crime of "violation of domicile," the same
charge he was convicted of 2012.

"We were going to revoke your probation, but you are behaving well and
so we are not going to revoke it," the judges said, as confirmed by the
writer to this newspaper. He said the trial never happened because the
cause was withdrawn. Santiesteban said that they learned that "a paper
signed by his ex-wife" withdrew the complaint for the supposed crime.
After what happened this morning, the activist remains on parole, as he
has been since last July.

A few yards from the Havana Capitol, a dozen Ladies in White, activists
and members of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) gathered from the
early hours and were able to witness the moment Santiesteban,
handcuffed, escorted by two policemen arrived and was led into the Fifth
Chamber where he would be tried. Among the opponents was Berta Soler,
leader of the Ladies in White.

In the morning, the artist Danilo Maldonado, known as "El Sexto" (The
Sixth), took toiletries for the writer to the police station in Zapata
and C where he was being held, but he had been transferred to the court,
although several sources said he was able to make a phone call before
leaving.

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