Artist Tania Bruguera is released after being detained in Havana for several hours

Havana – The Cuban artist Tania bruguera She was released after being detained in a Havana police station for six hours on Tuesday, an arrest the activist also described as ‘kidnapping’ and calling for an end to ‘political violence’ in Cuba

“What happened to me today was a kidnapping,” Bruguera said in a live broadcast on Facebook, also warning that he will continue to “do whatever he sees fit to stop the political abuse in Cuba, into the political violence. Cuba will stop, will stop and the right to rights will be respected ”.

The artist said she was intercepted by state security officers while walking down the street to run errands, forced to get into a vehicle with its own license plate and taken to a police station where she was questioned: to create division, fear and suspicion. among the people who are working to change things today, ”he said.

Bruguera denounced “the system the government of Cuba uses to scare people who do what we think should be done” and assured that what happened to her today and worse things “happen to many Cubans who are losing their fear”.

“What happened today does not stand alone, it is a mediocre, absurd exercise of power that corresponds to the 20th century, not the 21st. Things have changed, Cuba is not the same and you have to change too, ”he said, referring to the island’s government.

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Bruguera, known for her political interpretations and for attending events at the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, has been repeatedly arrested in Cuba.

It is also part of the 27N movement, articulated after more than 300 cultural figures and supporters gathered peacefully in front of the Ministry of Culture on November 27 last year to demand freedom of expression and creation, as well as the end of police harassment. to makers who criticize the government.

Artists, activists and independent journalists have denounced an increase in repression in recent months, including police surveillance, rejection, arbitrary detentions and house arrest without committing any crime.

The Cuban government, meanwhile, accuses these people of being “counter-revolutionaries” in the service of the United States and has launched an intense campaign to discredit them in the state press.

Tania Bruguera's response to the more than six hours of kidnapping.

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