Below, please see a link to a short video sent via email from Cuba
by Angel Moya Acosta,
an ex Cuban political prisoner of conscience and husband of Berta Soler, leader of
the Ladies in White. It shows the violent arrest by gov't forces
(some in plainclothes) of human rights defenders, particularly members of this
peaceful feminine group dressed in white, in front of their
headquarters located at: Calle E, #51 e/ Cumbre y Porvenir, Reparto Lawton,
Municipio 10 de Octubre, and in other neighborhoods in Havana,
Cuba on Sunday, October 30 2016.
Please note:
1. Photographs at the beginning of the video show operatives
of the Cuban political police posted around the clock during the week
from Thursday-Sunday at strategic corners in Havana, with the purpose of
stopping and preventing the peaceful activists from leaving their homes
and/or reaching the headquarters of the Ladies in White.
2. As the activists and women, dressed
in white, exit their headquarters to attend mass at the Church
of Santa Rita de Casia, they display a sign (taken away by the
agents) that reads: #WE
ALL MARCH ,CONTINUALLY PRESENT and are arrested.
3. The government sponsored mob gathers in front of the Ladies
in White headquarters with a Cuban flag to scream slogans after the
arrest of the activists: DOWN
WITH THE WORMS! THIS STREET BELONGS TO FIDEL !
4. Agents transfer all activists who exit the Ladies in White
headquarters in a bus to detention centers where they are subjected
to cruel and inhumane treatment and conditions.
5. Ladies in White are seen arrested as they exit their
homes located in other Havana neighborhoods chanting: "Freedom for Cuban Political
Prisoners!", "Long
Live Human Rights!", "Long Live the Ladies in White!",
"Cuba Yes, Castro No!" and "Freedom for the people of
Cuba!". They are driven away in patrol cars, also to
detention centers.
5. The last photo shows the activists posing with the Cuban flag and
the sign: #WE
ALL MARCH, CONTINUALLY PRESENT inside the
headquarters of the Ladies in White just before going out onto the streets
on Sunday with the intention of attending mass and carry out their
peaceful protests.
The
Coalition of Cuban-American
Women
make the Cuban government responsible for the physical and mental well-being of
all members of the peaceful human rights movement who struggle
on behalf of freedom and justice for the Cuban people.
The
lives of these human rights defenders and their families in Cuba are in danger.
We urgently request ongoing solidarity for these brave men and women
in the island of Cuba from the international community: dignitaries,
journalists, NGO's and all men and women of good will in the world.
Laida
A. Carro
Human
Rights Defender
Coalition of Cuban-American
Women
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