The Rev. Lleonart Barroso, a Baptist pastor,
was arrested and detained by political police
and state security agents in central Cuba on
January 25.
He was returned to his home later that
night and put under house arrest.
Wife and daughters
Political police surrounded the home of
the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Taguayabon, in the early hours. His wife was
forcibly stopped by security services when
she attempted to leave the house with their
two young daughters to warn her husband,
who was not home at the time. He was
arrested in front of his family in the street as
he returned home.
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