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A member of Fuera de la Caja Cuba says he was questioned for 12 hours at a Havana police station
Karel Daniel Hernández Bosques said in a video that the political police threatened him with prison if he kept posting critical videos, after he answered a summons at the Aguilera station in Havana's Diez de Octubre district.
Karel Daniel Hernández Bosques, a member of the independent video project Fuera de la Caja Cuba, said in a video posted on the project's page that he was subjected to a 12-hour interrogation at the Aguilera police station in Havana's Diez de Octubre district after answering an official summons. Cubanet and Martí Noticias placed the questioning on Saturday; Periódico Cubano dated it to Friday, November 6, 2026.
"For my freedom and for the freedom of all those unjustly starving in Cuban prisons, I do this: down with the Cuban dictatorship!" he said in the recording, in remarks translated by Yamacoa, wearing a red cap with the English slogan "Make Cuba Great Again." Fuera de la Caja Cuba posted it with the message: "Don't let them fool you. This is real socialism… Repression!!!"
By his account, the officers accused him of being "a mercenary paid by the Yankees" and pressed him to break with his colleagues: "They kept telling me to drop my friends, as if I couldn't decide for myself, and they threatened me over and over that if I didn't stop making this kind of video they would really enjoy putting me in prison."
"How is it possible that there are still people capable of defending a system that does not hesitate to threaten young people like me with prison just for making videos a minute and a half long," he added, saying he could neither grasp nor accept "endorsing police operations against independent journalists" or "ignoring thousands of political prisoners who at most went out on the street with a cardboard sign asking for justice."
Cubanet places the case within an intensification of state pressure on journalists, content creators and human rights defenders: in recent days, home blockades, internet cut-offs and emergency summonses against Yoani Sánchez, Camila Acosta, Adelth Bonne and the activist Anna Bensi, as well as the arrest of Christian activist Anthony Martínez Román in Artemisa and the raid on the home of community organiser Yoel Alejandro Pérez Serrano in Santiago de Cuba.
Sources: Cubanet · Martí Noticias · Periódico Cubano
Data updated: 2026-11-09T04:15:00.000Z