The footage is chilling.
Dina Stars is a Cuban influencer with more than 71,000 Instagram followers and nearly 40,000 YouTube subscribers.She had been a critic of the Cuban government and has highlighted the protest that have gone down since Sunday.
Yesterday she was being interviews by Spain’s Cuatro TV network when Cuban police showed up at her door to arrest her.
Tuesday afternoon when the interview was interrupted by her arrest. Stars has been a prominent critic of the Cuban government. Her 71,000-plus Instagram followers—and nearly 40,000 YouTube subscribers—have see her posts calling for the Cuban government to step down.
Footage of the broadcast shows a friend enter her room to break the news that police are outside, as she warns presenter Marta Flich: “Security is out there… I have to go out.”
As she gets up to go and confront them, the young Cuban says: “I make the government responsible for whatever happens to me.
“They’re forcing me to go with them. I have to go.”
Stars, who has been reporting on the protests, had previously shared a video of a demonstration in Havana and images of pro-government protesters carrying sticks...
Meanwhile, the regime drew international condemnation after yesterday detaining journalist Camila Acosta, who was covering the unrest in the country for Spanish newspaper ABC.
Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares demanded her “immediate release”, adding: “Spain defends the right to demonstrate freely and peacefully and asks the Cuban authorities to respect it.”