December 12, 2007
Students arrested for wearing wristbands
A group of Cuban high school students were arrested Tuesday, for wearing white wristbands proclaiming, "CAMBIO," according to a report by independent journalist Mario Hechavarria Driggs, posted at Misceláneas de Cuba.
The boys, students at a high school across from Central Park in Old Havana, were taken to a local police station, and their parents were summoned to explain the origin of the wristbands and why their sons were wearing them.
A female student, ninth-grader Carmen Delia, said teachers and other officials at the school — Jose Antonio Echeverria High — have been on the lookout for the wristbands, according to Hechavarria's story.
"In our school, there is a relentless persecution for wearing these wristbands, and students who risk wearing them, can be expelled from school," Carmen said.
For more stories about how the dictatorship has cracked down on dissent this week, go here and here.
(Cross-posted at Uncommon Sense.)
Posted by Marc at December 12, 2007 08:06 PM
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nothing will happen to them if they are high school students , just a warning to the parents
the thing is that the writbands are becoming popular
Posted by: Abajofidel ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 12, 2007 08:12 PM
Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo has been living in Havana for the past few years. How come he hasn't been visible during these human rights demonstrations? He started an organization called "Cambio Cubano" years ago. He is a phony and a hypocrite for not denouncing the present repression. I can't conceive how anyone in 1958-59 who have deemed this worthless gallego without character as some kind of revolutionary hero. That's why Fidel Castro never executed him: Menoyo is more favorable to the revolution alive that making him an anti-Castro martyr if executed.
Posted by: mrcs_Concepcion at December 12, 2007 09:15 PM
Menoyo is a loser. Does not represent the cuban people..he is ignored by all of us inside and out ... Why waste time talking about him
bury him
Posted by: Abajofidel at December 12, 2007 09:58 PM
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