Domiciano Torres Roca, a teacher and political activist, was reportedly arrested and ill-treated on 13 August 1993 in Havana by police. He is currently believed to be held at the headquarters of the Departamento de Seguridad del Estado (DSE), Department of State Security. The Vice- President of the unofficial Partido Civico Democratico, Civil Democratic Party, he had said before his arrest that he and other members of the group were being persecuted and threatened by the State Security Police because of the reports about human rights violations he was communicating by telephone to contacts abroad. He is believed to be a prisoner of conscience.
