The Ladies In White Face Another Sunday Of Repression In Havana

The Ladies In White Face Another Sunday Of Repression In Havana / 14ymedio
Posted on October 4, 2015

14ymedio, Havana, 4 October, 2015 – Fifty-nine Ladies in White and 20
activists gathered this Sunday in Gandhi Park in Havana's Playa
district, despite the arrests previous to their traditional Sunday
peregrination. After a summary of their weekly activities, the
dissidents were detained, according to a report from witnesses at the scene.

From the early hours, the regime opponent Martha Beatriz Roque
denounced the arrests of 12 human rights activists who had traveled to
Santa Rita parish. Among those arrested with the mother and siblings of
Zaqueo Baez Guerrero, one of the members of the of the Patriotic Union
of Cuba (UNPACU) who had approached Pope Francis in Havana's Plaza of
the Revolution.

Others arrested on Sunday included the regime opponents Antonio Gonzalez
Rodiles, Ailer Gonzalez and Felix Navarro. The latter lives in the town
of Perico, Matanzas, and traveled to the capital to show his support to
the human rights movement.

Blogger Agustín López Canino denounced his arrest and reported that he
was handcuffed at the corner of 5th and 30th streets, in the Playa
district, together with two other colleagues. The activists detailed
that he was "taken to the outskirts of Havana" to prevent his
accompanying the Ladies in White during their Sunday march.

Meanwhile, in Colón, Matanzas, independent journalist Ivan Hernandez
Carrillo reported ten Ladies in White marched in Colón, Matanzas, for
the release of the political prisoners.

The leader of the Ladies in White movement, Berta Soler said that
Yaquelín Boni, an activist detained since Thursday during a protest
outside Combinado del Este prison and accused of "disobedience," has now
been released.

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