CID Party Leader Arrested in Pinar del Rio for Listening to Music by Willy Chirino / Katia Sonia

Luis Alberto Hernández Marrero Archive Photo

Luis Alberto Hernández Marrero, delegate of the Party for an Independent and Democratic Cuba in the province of Pinar del Rio was violently arrested, together with his son, Luis Adrian Hernández Martínez, at around 1 a.m. on 4 November in Calle San Juan y Martínez between Virtudes y Sol and fined for causing a “Public Disorder”.

Luis Alberto Hernández Marrero told this reporter that he and his son were singing the popular song “Ya viene llegando” by Cuban singer Willy Chirino, when suddenly “my house was invaded by two Interior Ministry officials, wearing plain clothes – one of them a woman – accompanied by two uniformed officers from a police patrol car, who, on the orders of the officials, violently grabbed hold of my 19-year-old son and bundled him into the police car. We shouted that they were “lackeys” and “abusers” and cried “Down with the dictatorship”. We were taken down to the police station, where we were fined 30 pesos each, allegedly for creating a “public disorder”.

The source confirmed that they were released at 3.30 a.m.

Translated by Paul Knopinski

November 6 2011