Former Political Prisoner Aniette González García Detained Again in Camagüey, Family Says

State Security agents detained Aniette González García at her Camagüey home on a Saturday morning, less than four months after she completed a three-year prison sentence. Her six-year-old granddaughter watched as authorities took her away, and family members say the child was traumatized by what she witnessed.

González García was held through the day for questioning before being released that evening. No formal charges were filed. Her daughter, Aniecita Ginestá, documented the episode on social media, invoking the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Cuba's Family Code to argue that the detention caused harm to a minor and amounted to intimidation of a peaceful civic actor.

The original case against González García dated to 2023, when she participated in a social media campaign using the hashtag #LaBanderaEsDeTodos, sharing images of herself with the Cuban flag. She was prosecuted for insulting patriotic symbols, convicted, and sentenced to three years. She was released in December 2025.

The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights and local monitors helped circulate details of the Saturday arrest. Their involvement reflects a broader documentation effort: rights groups have identified a pattern in which former political prisoners face continued harassment through summons, surveillance, and short-term detentions designed to push dissidents toward silence or exile, rather than allowing them to reintegrate into civic life after serving court-imposed terms.

Aniecita Ginestá's appeal to specific legal codes signals an intent to build a formal rights record around the incident even without new criminal proceedings. For a case that began with a hashtag about who owns the Cuban flag, the latest chapter ended the same way it started: with state force applied to a woman whose dissent never went beyond a social media post.