Police Confirm To ‘El Sexto’ He Can Not Leave The Country

Police Confirm To 'El Sexto' He Can Not Leave The Country / 14ymedio

14ymedio, Havana, 24 November 2016 — Police informed the graffiti artist
Danilo Maldonado – known as 'El Sexto', (The Sixth) – that he can not
leave the country because he is "regulated," having been accused in a
legal process due to a complaint by his ex-wife. He received the
information within a few minutes of an official at the Zapata and C
Police Station, in El Vedado, telling him the exact opposite.

The artist has attempted, this Tuesday, to travel to the United States
after receiving a police summons, but was not able to board the plane.

El Sexto detailed to 14ymedi that earlier this week he received at the
home of his mother, Maria Victoria Machado, a summons for 22 November
for an "interview." The uniformed officer who delivered the citation
told the family that it was related to "a complaint for harassment" made
by his ex-wife.

However, when he presented himself on Tuesday morning in response to the
citation, police officials were not able to give him any more details
about the presumed accusation. Maldonado tried to travel that same day,
but at the airport an immigration official confirmed that he was
"regulated" by the National Revolutionary Police (PNR).

On Thursday the artist went to the Vedado police station to demand an
explanation of his case. There they told him he could not travel, but a
few minutes later he received contrary information.

El Sexto was arrested in Havana on Christmas Eve of 2014, when he
proposed to stage a performance with two pigs he had painted with the
names of Fidel of Raul. On that occasion he spent ten months in Valle
Grande prison without trial.

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