Apartheid Cuban regime violently arrests 30 Ladies in White during Sunday peaceful protest march

This past Sunday marked the 94th peaceful protest march of the Todos Marchamos (We all march) campaign. It also marked the 94th Sunday of violent repression and arrests of peaceful human rights and democracy activists by the apartheid Castro regime. This is what “change” in Cuba looks like.

Via Diario de Cuba (my translation):

Cuban State Security arrests 30 Ladies in White in Havana and Matanzas

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More than 28 Ladies in White along with several other human rights activists were arrested this Sunday by Cuban State Security. Sources from the internal dissidence report that the arrests primarily took place in Havana and Matanzas to stop them from carrying out the #TodosMarchamos (we all march) campaign.

Former political prisoner Angel Moya told Diario de Cuba that this was the 94th Sunday of repression against the campaign for the release of political prisoners.

“Since Thursday, forces from State Security and the National Police were deployed all around the national headquarters” of the women’s group to “surveil and arrest the women,” said Moya.

“Since then some of the Ladies in White have already been arrested when they attempted to reach the headquarters,” he added.

“Today, the women’s movement leader Berta Soler and Zenaida Hidalgo were arrested the moment they left the headquarters. Members from the Rapid Response Brigade mobilized by the Communist Party carried out another act of repudiation where they shouted communist slogans and yelled vulgarities at the Ladies in White, insulting their honor,” he said.

He added that “more than 12 Ladies in White have been reported as arrested in Havana at this moment,” a number that will possibly “continue to increase as the hours go by.”

Moya reminded that “many of those arrested in the capital are taken to police stations and others are abandoned in remote places far from their homes.”

“Those who are held at the police stations are kept completely incommunicado from their families and each other, the reason why we consider them to be forcibly disappeared.”

Continue reading (in Spanish) HERE.

1 thought on “Apartheid Cuban regime violently arrests 30 Ladies in White during Sunday peaceful protest march”

  1. The more this happens, the more it’s brushed off as “normal,” and since practically nobody gives a shit anyhow, the weekly abuse turns out to be very convenient.

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