Two Cuban dissident artists forced into exile
Hamlet Lavastida is accused of having proposed to other dissidents to mark banknotes with the logos of the protest groups San Isidor and 27N.
YAMIL LAGE AFP / File
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Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida was released this weekend after three months of detention to be taken directly to the airport and forced to take a flight to Europe with a ban on returning to Cuba.
The artist and his companion, the Cuban poet Katherine Bisquet, also forced into exile, arrived in Poland on Sunday evening.
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The communist regime resumes the expulsions of dissidents.
Saturday, September 25, at the end of the day, Hamlet Lavastida is brought to Havana International Airport, surrounded by 20 Cuban secret service agents.
Another escort brings her partner, author Katherine Bisquet.
The agents let them know that their trip to Europe will be without the possibility of return.
"
The political police imposed exile on both of us as the only way to obtain Hamlet's release
," denounces the Cuban poet on
her Facebook account
.
"Incitement to delinquency"
The 38-year-old artist has spent the past three months in Villa Marista, the infamous high security prison.
He was arrested on June 26 in Havana when he had just returned from several months spent in an artists' residence in Germany.
The Cuban regime accuses him of "inciting delinquency" via social networks.
In a private chat, Hamlet Lavastida suggested to other dissidents to mark banknotes with the logos of the protest groups San Isidor and 27N.
But this idea had not been acted upon.
While in detention, his partner, Katherine Bisquet, was placed under house arrest.
International human rights organizations called for their release.
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