Roberto Valdes Casanova, 55, of Cuba Belarus For 30 years, he was deported to Cuba, Reports Svaboda.org, The digital portal of the Belarusian service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Libertad (RFE / RL).
Valdés Casanueva was arrested on November 11, 2020 after participating in a protest. After the Belarusian opposition condemned fraud in the election Alexander LukashenkoThe winner is the person who has been in power in the former Soviet Republic since 1994.
Valdés Casanueva has lived and worked in Belarus for 30 years. He is fluent in Russian and has three children, one of whom is a minor. According to the Belarusian anti-portal, he worked as a graphic designer disidente.by, And is a member of the Belarusian Designers Association. After being in the detention center for more than a year, He was deported to Cuba on December 10.
Belarusian opposition leaders have condemned Cuban deportation on social media. Franak Viacorka, Consultant Svetlana Dijanovskaya, A deported Belarusian opposition leader, described how Valdés Casanueva’s farewell to his youngest son at the airport is heartbreaking.
“Drilling. Cuban citizen Roberto Valdés Casanueva bids farewell to his son before being forcibly deported from Belarus. A year ago, fHe was arrested after a peaceful protest and was jailed for a year. In Belarus he has a family and three children. He has lived here for 30 years. Via Gorka wrote on his Twitter account.
Cuban has long sought to be a Belarusian citizen, But was subsequently rejected, according to a statement Radio Marty, Based on an interview he gave Swapota Belarusian who met Valds Casanova in prison in December 2020.
He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Havana and married a Belarusian woman in Cuba 30 years ago.. She had to return to her home country to take care of her ailing mother, and Valdos Casanova moved in with his wife. He has been married three times and is now divorced.
Belarusian Vadim Sukhoitz said Cuba had criticized Lukashenko, an ally of the Havana regime, from the beginning. What happened in Cuba in Belarus happened again and again.
Cuba described Ernesto Guevara Like the murderer who shot the prisoners. About Fidel Castro He said he had promised elections, but that democratic elections would not take place again on the island.
