Dissident Cuban rapper returns home who would have been detained by the Police and broadcast it live

(CNN Spanish) – Cuban singer Ramón Eusebio López Díaz, known as “El Invasor”, said on Facebook on Monday that he was already back home with his family after the video he recorded on Friday in which he narrated his apparent arrest by the Police Revolutionary National of Cuba (PNR).

Earlier and before his whereabouts were known, López Díaz’s couple regretted that the artist had not been able to spend Sunday, Father’s Day, with their baby. “It does not matter that we are not together physically, you are always in our hearts,” Aymet Fonseca Aleaga wrote on Facebook.

In addition, several users on social networks made publications with #FreeElInva and #LibertadParaElInva.

The live broadcast of «El Invasor» from his home in Cuba

The rapper and dissident broadcast the events of Friday live on his Facebook account for 20 minutes, when the agents arrived at his home in Bayamo, capital of the Bayamo province.

López Díaz began the broadcast by calling his followers to connect because the Police were at the door of his house. “This happens with all those who fight the government,” he exclaimed.

Minutes later, the artist, who refused to open the door, told the police that he had not committed any crime and that he would not dialogue with them. Seconds before he was arrested, “El Invasor” addressed the camera to demand freedom of expression and to urge the protests against the government to continue. At that moment, the agents abruptly entered the home, took him away handcuffed, and the transmission was cut off.

CNN is seeking comment from the Cuban authorities on that incident. So far, state media have not reported the reasons for the arrest.

They warn about the “climate of violence and repression”

José Miguel Vivanco, Director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW), posted on Twitter a video clip with the rapper’s music in which he claimed that he had been arrested. “Why is @DiazCanelB so afraid of independent artists?” Vivanco wrote.

Republican Senator from Florida Marco Rubio also spoke. «The Cuban regime continues to arrest its opponents. They remain determined to silence those who are tired of decades of censorship and repression. #We areTirania, ”he tweeted.

Days ago, the artists who participated in the protest song “Patria y vida” warned in a document that there is “a climate of violence and repression similar to that of the so-called Black Spring, in 2003.” This is how the government’s offensive against opposition figures is known, in which they arrested some 75 dissidents.

In April this year, “El Invasor” had released a song in which he defies the Police. CNN does not know why he was detained.

Patrick Oppman and Ana Cucalón contributed to this report.