{"id":29450,"date":"2021-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/press\/family-of-detained-pastor-evicted-from-their-home-5354\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:03:21","slug":"family-of-detained-pastor-evicted-from-their-home-5354","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/press\/family-of-detained-pastor-evicted-from-their-home-5354\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of detained pastor evicted from their home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The wife and child of Pastor Yarian Sierra Madrigal, who was detained<\/a> amid unprecedented nationwide protests in Cuba on 11 July, were forcibly evicted from their home on 18 July.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CSW sources report that Claudia Salazar and the couple\u2019s young son were forced to leave their home after their landlord was threatened by state security that he’d lose the property if he didn’t evict them. They are currently staying in a local church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pastor Sierra has been detained<\/a> alongside his colleague Y\u00e9remi Blanco Ram\u00edrez in poor conditions in a wing of the Matanzas women\u2019s prison since 11 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement<\/a> published by Christian Today on 17 July, Mrs Salazar wrote: \u201cMy husband Yarian Sierra and our friend and brother, Yeremi Blanco, are honorable Cuban citizens. They have dedicated all of their youth and lives to serve the church and to serve others. Family men. Loving fathers, loving husbands, with an impeccable life testimony. They are not any kind of delinquent, nor are they low-lifes as those who govern this country call them. They are good men, they are men of God, who think differently, who abhor communism and who went out to express this just like any human being has the right to think and to say what they feel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pastor Blanco Ram\u00edrez\u2019s wife, Adelys Rodr\u00edguez Reyes, also issued a statement<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CSW sources have also confirmed that another protestant pastor, Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, is currently detained in a state security facility in Santiago. The Cuban government plans to charge him with \u2018disrespect\u2019, \u2018public disorder,\u2019 and \u2018attacks.\u2019 The pastor\u2019s 17-year-old son, who was detained with him, was officially disappeared until he returned home on the evening of 17 July. He is also facing charges of \u2018disrespect\u2019 and \u2018public disorder,\u2019 and his mother described him as \u2018psychologically traumatized\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CSW\u2019s Head of Advocacy Anna-Lee Stangl said: \u201cThe decision to evict Claudia Salazar and her son, particularly at this distressing time, is a vindictive and cruel act by the Cuban authorities, who should instead be concentrating their efforts on taking the calls of the ongoing nationwide protests seriously. We continue to call for the immediate and unconditional release of pastors Sierra Madrigal, Blanco Ram\u00edrez, and Rosales Fajardo and for all others detained in connection with the exercise of their fundamental human rights, and for the charges against Pastor Rosales Fajardo\u2019s son to be dropped.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For over a week, Cuban State Security has responded forcefully and violently towards nationwide demonstrations that erupted across the country on 11 July. Numerous religious groups on the island have been particularly outspoken in response to the government\u2019s crackdown, affirming the right of the people to peacefully protest and condemning the Cuban president\u2019s call to violence. The country\u2019s Evangelical denominations have called for a day of prayer and fasting on 21 July, the 62nd<\/sup> anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban revolution.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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