Cuban opponent Guillermo Fariñas remained under arrest this Friday for several hours, his family told Efe, who attributed the arrest to the anniversary of the protest known as the “Maleconazo.”
Fariñas’s mother, Alicia Hernández, confirmed by telephone that her son was released this afternoon, after this morning when he left his house he was detained by the police, who were waiting for him nearby. “They handcuffed him and took him away in a patrol car,” she explained.