Leonardo Rodríguez Alonso was detained on 28th February in Villa Clara, and is being held in the Provincial Unit for Investigations in the city of Santa Clara.
According to CSW, Alonso is a regional coordinator for the Patmos Institute, an independent civil society organization that promotes inter-religious dialogue and freedom of religion or belief for all.
It’s been reported that he was arrested on his way home from the town of Caibarién, where he was leading meetings with human rights campaigners who were discussing responses to a series of religious violations affecting Apostolic Movement churches in central and eastern Cuba.
Rev Mario Felix Lleonart Barroso, a founder of the Patmos Institute, said Captain Erick Francis Aquino Year, the regional Head of Confrontation (Jefe de Enfrentemiento) dealt directly with Alonso.
Year reportedly told members of Rodríguez Alonso’s family that the government considers the Patmos Institute to be a counter-revolutionary organization, and that if charges are brought against him they will be serious.
Rev Barroso told (CSW) that the government is unhappy with their work raising religious freedom concerns in and outside Cuba, including through the submission of a report by the Patmos Institute to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Cuba at the United Nations.
Anna-Lee Stangl, Americas Team Leader at CSW, said the…
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