The Madrid-based NGO Prisoners Defenders made the complaintwhich was accompanied by a photo of the written summons delivered to the home of the minor’s grandmother, who was also summoned.
“As reported and documented by the family, the three-year-old girl Leadi Kataleya Naranjo, daughter of prisoner of conscience Idael Naranjo Pérez, has been summoned for tomorrow by Cuban State Security,” the complaint emphasizes.
“The summons offers no doubt and indicates the two names, last name and the address of the paternal grandmother, where the summons was deliveredand the grandmother has also been summoned and threatened with disobedience,” he adds.
As the summons shows, written by hand on the model that the Police in Cuba usually use to carry out this kind of procedure, Both must appear this Tuesday, August 8, at the PNR El Capri station, in Arroyo Naranjo, before “Officer Robert.”
“If the girl doesn’t show up, they threaten to charge her with ‘disobedience’ anyway. Grandma got worried, told them the age, and they still handed over the summons and left. That ‘they had to show up’. Nothing else”assures Prisoners Defenders.
“They are heartless, but… What kind of crazy people are in charge in Cuba? What do they mean by summoning and threatening a three-year-old girl? That girl cannot go to that ignominious summons. To hear what? To answer what? The subject is disgusting,” the NGO reacted in its publication, which documents the situation of Cuban political prisoners and disseminates it in international organizations.
“The family does not want to take the girl, and they need all the support so that this madness clears up and stops”states the complaint.
“Unfortunately, We have seen the same or worse things. Children threatened, separated by force from their parents, minors tortured… The Cuban regime is very disgusting, everywhere it oozes disgust and degradation. Everything that happens in Cuba cries out to heaven, and these barbarities are dystopian,” he underlines.
“They cause a lot of damage with the eight-year law, which has thousands of orphaned children forcibly separated from their mothers to punish them for not giving in to work in Cuba’s slave medical missions abroad, as the Committee of the Rights of the Child”, ends.
Although It is not the first time that the Cuban political police have used this kind of procedure against the minor children of opponents and political prisonersto those who use to extort them, especially when it comes to mothers with childrenlast April it transcended a similar episode against opposition activist Marisol Peña Cobas.
On that occasion, the activist received a summons for an interrogation in the Office of Attention to Minors of the province of Camagüey destined for his daughter, only seven years old.
A police patrol waited for Peña Cobas and his daughter outside their home to take them to an appointment with a prosecutor, a psychologist from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) and an official. The woman explained that the only reason they gave her daughter about this call was that she, as the mother of the minor, refuses to transmit the regime’s version of the leaders and historical figures of Castroism. For that same reason, Peña is accused of “acts contrary to the normal development of the minor” and is currently on bail.
Peña Cobas also denounced that they forced her to leave the office and he had to leave his daughter alone at the interrogation so as not to “upset” her any more than she already was. “She looked at me with her eyes wanting to cry,” Peña said between sobs, adding that to reassure her he told her: “don’t cry, my love, that mom is behind the door waiting for you to take you home.”
Upon leaving the meeting with the MININT officials, The girl told her that they asked her directly “if her mother was good to her”the name of his father and if he knew who Miguel Díaz-Canel was.
The Cubalex Legal Information Center stated in one of his reports that, according to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by the Cuban State on August 21, 1991, “the child subjected to interrogation must have access to a legal representative or other appropriate representative and be able to request the presence of his parents” .
FOUNTAIN: diariodecuba.com
