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Protest marchers beaten, detained

Here are some of the latest videos of the repression and violence against the Ladies in White:







These videos shows the real nature of the Castroit tyrannical regime. In one of the videos, when coming out from church, the Ladies in White are beating by a member of the Communist Party. The Castroit regime does not care about consequences for criminal behavior. Under this regime justice is a four letter word.
 
Cuba Further information Prisoner of conscience attacked in prison Dr Eduardo Cardet Concepción
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr25/7759/2018/en/

22 January 2018, Index number: AMR 25/7759/2018

URGENT ACTION

PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE ATTACKED IN PRISON

On 19 December 2017, after being transferred from the Provisional Prison of Holguín to Cuba SI prison, three other prisoners attacked Eduardo Cardet, according to his wife. He is a prisoner of conscience who must be released immediately and unconditionally.

On 19 December 2017, the afternoon after authorities transferred Dr Eduardo Cardet Concepción from the Provisional Prison of Holguín to Cuba SI prison in the same province, three other prisoners allegedly attacked him, according to his wife, Yaimaris Vecino. Prison authorities only informed his wife and family that same day that they would be transferring Eduardo Cardet to a different prison. They only permitted his family to see him for several minutes and did not provide the family with reasons for the transfer.

Yaimaris Vecino told Amnesty International that prison officials did not permit her to visit her husband after the attack until 15 January 2018, when she observed two circular scars to Eduardo Cardet’s abdomen. She stated that her husband told her that he had not received medical attention since the attack and was experiencing headaches and dizziness.

On 9 January, Eduardo Cardet’s sister lodged a complaint regarding the alleged attack with the Public Prosecutor in Havana, the capital. As of 19 January the family had not received a response, according to Yaimaris Vecino.

Eduardo Cardet is the leader of the pro-democracy movement Christian Liberation Movement (Movimiento Cristiano Liberación, MCL). He has been imprisoned in Holguín since his arrest on 30 November 2016, five days after the death of the former leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro. Prior to his arrest, Eduardo Cardet gave a number of interviews published in international media in which he was critical of the Cuban government.
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Eduardo Cardet Concepción, a Cuba physician, successor to murdered leader of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL), Oswaldo Payá, and in prison since November 30, 2016, was badly beaten and stabbed twice by three prisoners on December 19, 2017.
 
On January 31, 2017 Amnesty International recognized Eduardo Cardet as a prisoner of conscience. Cardet was sentenced to three years in prison on March 20, 2017 following a mock trial in Cuba. After the murder of Oswaldo Payá and Cepero, Cardet was appointed national coordinator of the MCL in November 2014. Since then he has been detained several times.
 
Barred from Leaving Cuba to Attend an Event Not Approved by the Government
Barred from Leaving Cuba to Attend an Event Not Approved by the Government – Translating Cuba

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Alfredo and Ariel López González, brothers who farm in the San Juan y Martínez area in Pinar del Río. (CEC)

14ymedio Posted on February 25, 2018

14ymedio – Authorities prevented two farmers from the municipality of San Juan y Martínez, in Pinar del Río province, from traveling to Miami on Friday. The two were scheduled to participate in a conference sponsored by the Center for Coexistence Studies (CEC) scheduled for this weekend. The Directorate of Immigration and Alien Affairs claimed that both are “restricted” and not allowed to leave the country, according to 14ymedio.

The two brothers received a visit from two uniformed State Security officers last Friday night. The officers, identified as Orestes and Major Joaquín, warned both men that they would not be able to travel to Florida because the event to which they were invited was “not approved by the [Cuban] government.”
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In October 2012, the Castroit regime supposedly lifted the travel ban. Cubans need only to have a passport and a visa from the country of destination to travel. The meaning of the law was that Cubans will no longer have to apply for an exception to the travel ban or show a letter of invitation from a person in the intended destination. But of course the regime will decide who can renew or obtain passports and denied the right to travel for whatever reason it deems necessary. The regime allow the people to enjoy the illusion that they can leave. Activists, athletes, doctors, engineers, priests pastors and many others, often discover they have been barred from leaving the country.
 
On March 3, the regime immigration prevented four members of the board of the Pro Press Freedom Association (APLP) from leaving the island. Their destination was Trinidad and Tobago to participate in a journalism workshop. This is a flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which state that “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”

These travel bans under any pretext, is a part of new tactic of the Castroit tyrannical regime used against civil society organizations, which include arrest, confiscation of personal belongings, home searches without warrant and unlawful fines.
 
Update on Cuban prisoner of conscience Eduardo Cardet: health worsening, not being provided religious assistance
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Update on Cuban prisoner of conscience Eduardo Cardet: health worsening, not being provided religious assistance

One year and three months unjustly imprisoned, Eduardo Cardet, finds his health worsening and not being provided religious assistance following a brutal attack on December 19, 2017.

MARCH 17, 2018

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Cuban prisoner of conscience Eduardo Cardet Concepción

Yesterday the Christian Liberation Movement, a democratic opposition movement based in Cuba, posted in an update on the condition of their imprisoned national coordinator Dr. Eduardo Cardet. He is an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience who has been subjected to brutal beatings and attacks by regime officials and prison inmates (most likely on orders of prison officials). Dr. Cardet, who is also a medical doctor, husband, and father of two faces a worsening health situation, according to his wife, Dr. Yaimaris Vecino who visited him on March 16, 2018, with a poor prognosis and due to bureaucratic hurdles from both the Catholic Church and the Castro regime is not receiving religious attendance.

UPDATED INFORMATION to March 16, 2018

Update 03/16 The state of health of #Eduardo Cardet worsens. His wife, Dr. Yaimaris Vecino (who visited him today) reports that his asthma is worsening as well as another illness that does not have a good prognosis.

On the other hand, Eduardo only receives evasions from the authorities when he tries to find out the status of his prison situation. [He is being housed with the same prisoners who brutally beat him and repeatedly stabbed him with a sharp object on December 19, 2017.]
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Eduardo Cardet, a doctor with more than 20 years of work, joined the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) after the arrests of 2013, during the “Black Spring.” Oswaldo Payá, leader of the MCL, was murdered in July 2012, an in 2014 Cardet was elected leader of the MCL.

In November 2016 he and others members of the MCL travel to Miami where they meet with Senator Marco Rubio, and Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart, among other figures. He and the others returned to Cuba, and in November 30, 2016, five days after the death of Fidel Castro, Cardet was arrested in the city of Holguín and charge with attacking an official of the state after he publicly criticized Fidel Castro a few days after his death.

In May 2017 he was sentenced to three years in prison “for the alleged crime of an attack.” Amnesty International (AI), declared him a "prisoner of conscience" and called for his “immediate and unconditional release.” On December 19, 2017, he was transfer from the prison of Holguin to the Cuba Sl prison, where he was attacked by 3 other prisoners that beating and stabbed him. The regime just want to get rid of him.
 
Cardet imprisonment was not for what he said after the death of Fidel Castro, but rather the work he was doing on the island with ''One Cuban, One Vote". The "One Cuban, One Vote" initiative was presented to the National Assembly of Popular Power by the MCL. The Castroit regime fear the initiative, which demands a new electoral law that recognizes free elections. This is the main reason for the regime harsh attack on him and all those who defend human rights.
 
Cuban scientist sentenced to one year in prison for 'disrespecting' government authority
Cuban scientist sentenced to one year in prison for 'disrespecting' government authority | Miami Herald

BY NORA GÁMEZ TORRES
ngameztorres@elnuevoherald.com
May 09, 2018 04:35 PM

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Cuban biologist Ariel Ruiz Urquiola at his farm in Viñales, Pinar del Río Facebook

Cuban biologist Ariel Ruiz Urquiola wanted to start an eco-friendly project on his farm in Viñales, a mountainous region west of Havana. But now those plans are on hold because he was sentenced to one year in prison for “disrespecting” officials.

The alleged crime? He called a Forest Ranger a “rural guard.”

“We will appeal, but it's already clear they want to take away our farm. We will fight tooth and nail,” said Ruiz Urquiola's sister, Omara Ruiz Urquiola.

The 43-year-old biologist's troubles began several years ago at the University of Havana after he issued complaints against the fishing of endangered turtles. In 2016, he was expelled from the university. He then decided to launch an environmental project to preserve several species in Viñales.
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The jails of citizens for charges of disrespecting authority, is a subterfuge use by the Castroit regime to punish those that oppose the system. In this case to get Ariel out of his farm in Viñales, a region visited by many foreign tourists, for denouncing the abuses and corruption in the area.
 
In 2003, Ariel Ruiz was expelled from his teaching position at the University of Havana for refusing to sign a letter in support of the execution of three black young men who hijacked a boat to escape the island. He also carried out a hunger strike because of the lack of medicine for his sister’s cancer, which brought to the fore front the negligence at the Oncological Hospital in Havana. He won a scholarship from the Humboldt Institute in Germany. He has the courage to express his viewpoint that differ from the regime, and that is the main reason he has been punished by the Castroit regime through the years.
 
CUBA: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST IMPRISONED: DR ARIEL RUIZ URQUIOLA
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr25/8541/2018/en/

12 June 2018, Index number: AMR 25/8541/2018

Dr Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, an environmental activist, was sentenced in Cuba to one-year imprisonment for contempt. He is a prisoner of conscience and must be released unconditionally and immediately.

URGENT ACTION ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST IMPRISONED

Dr Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, an environmental activist, was sentenced in Cuba to one-year imprisonment for contempt. He is a prisoner of conscience and must be released unconditionally and immediately.

Ariel Ruiz Urquiola is a doctor in biological sciences who previously worked as a researcher at the University of Havana. In 2015, he bought a house in the Sierra del Infierno area, in Viñales’ National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Pinar del Río province, western Cuba. After acquiring the right to farm the state land surrounding his house, in 2016 he started an environmental project with his family and friends to preserve local species and to develop sustainable agricultural projects.
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Amnesty International issue a call for “Urgent Action” on behalf of Dr Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, who is serving a one year sentence for disrespect.

The Castroit regime is afraid of people like Ariel, a very courageous and intelligent person. Ariel didn’t leave Cuba, regardless of the consequences. His determination and resolution should be emulated.
 
Cuba’s authoritarian state puts an environmentalists life in danger
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2d2b36719956

By Editorial Board June 27, 2018

A SUREFIRE way to tell the difference between an authoritarian state and an open democracy is the matter of respect. In a free society guaranteed by law, people enjoy a rare and precious right to say what they want, even if critical of their leaders. By contrast, in an authoritarian state, disrespect of the powerful is illegal. And that is why Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, an environmentalist, is in prison in Cuba. He was convicted of “disrespect” in remarks to forest rangers and sent to jail for a year.
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The Castroit regime is not interested in human rights, its interest is to hold to power. The regime doesn’t care about Ariel dying. Hopefully this time the western news media is paying attention. Ariel feel the urge to resort to a hunger strike in order for the people of the free world to see the evil of the Castroit tyrannical regime.
 
Ariel Ruiz Urquiola Speaks Out About His Time in Jail and His Repressors
Ariel Ruiz Urquiola Speaks Out About His Time in Jail and His Repressors | Diario de Cuba

BORIS GONZÁLEZ ARENAS | La Habana | 10 de Julio de 2018

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Ariel Ruiz Urquiola. (B. GONZÁLEZ ARENAS)

On Saturday, 16 2018 Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola made a decision that could have cost him his life: to begin a hunger and thirst strike.

He was at the Cayo Largo work camp, "a suffocating set of barracks with two latrines and one shower for 52 inmates," where he was to serve the two months of prison he had left after on 8 May, 2018 the Municipal Court of Viñales condemned him to a year of jail time for the crime of contempt.

The fabrication of the crime, the judicial maneuvers, the authorities' abusive conduct against the penal population, the violation of his right to work, and the ousting of his sister, Omara Isabel Ruiz Urquiola, a cancer patient since 2005, with Ariel taking charge of and seeing to her survival, constituted such a series of affronts that he was spurred to break free – whether by overcoming Castroism's machinery of persecution and condemnation, or through death.

Two days after beginning his strike, on Tuesday, 19 June, Ariel was sent to the Kilo 5 Prison, where he was subjected to solitary confinement, a special punishment for serious indiscipline, according to the authorities at the prison.
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Ariel case generated a wave of national and international solidarity. He was sentenced to one year in prison for the crime of “contempt” which is frequently used to bring charges against activists. Amnesty International declared Ruiz Urquiola a prisoner of conscience and took urgent action to demand his release. He was released after 15 days on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
 
An honest person like Ariel represent a danger for the regime. His case was widespread by the social media and newspapers, which was an important factor in his release from prison. The regime jailers, who made life a living hell for Ariel, could not break his spirit.

It is very important to let the world know about the daily risks that Cuba's pro-democracy activists are taking to confront the Castroit brutal dictatorship and the sacrifices being made for the cause of freedom.
 
The Cuba of Humboldt and Ruiz Urquiola
https://generacionyen.wordpress.com/

Posted July 5, 2018, YOANI SÁNCHEZ

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Ariel Ruiz Urquiola believes that the authorities want to seize his family’s farm. (Facebook)

14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Generation Y, Havana, 5 July 2018 — At the entrance to Humboldt University in Berlin, an inscription in Spanish says that the statue of the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt that stands there was a gift from the University of Havana, in homage to the man who has been called “the second discoverer” of Cuba. Cuban biologist Ariel Ruiz Urquiola repeatedly passed that statue with its serene face during his time at that institution of higher learning.

In recent days the name of this young researcher, 43, has graced the covers of numerous international media, for having maintained a hunger strike for more than two weeks. With that strict fast, Ruiz Urquiola demanded his release after being sentenced to one year in prison for the alleged offense of “contempt,” in a flawed case plagued by irregularities. Thus, the scientist put his life at risk to demand freedom, using his own body as a lever of complaint against what he considered an injustice.

On Tuesday, the Cuban authorities yielded in their stubbornness and released Ruiz Urquiola. For health reasons he was granted a parole which does not totally annul his sentence, but it does permit him to return to his home and to the agro-ecological project he manages in Viñales. Although his tenacity allowed him to win this battle, he knows that the eyes of the ruling party will be watching for any false step in hopes of making him shoulder “the blame” for his public demands, putting the Government on the spot and, above all, denouncing the ecological damage that it commits in that protected area of the Cuban West.
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During the 60 years of the Castroit regime at least 13 political prisoners have died in hunger strikes (http://cubaarchive.org/files/Hunger_Strike_Victims_1.2016.pdf). It is very sad that these hunger strikes have to be used to bring world opinion to bear against the oppression and denial of freedom by the regime and force change.
 
The words of Fidel Castro return like a boomerang to haunt him and his tyrannical regime. On September 15, 1981, Fidel Castro gave the opening speech at the 63rd conference of the Interparliamentary Union, which was held in Havana. These are Castro's remarks on the Irish Republican Army who died during the hunger strike. Here it is from the “horse” mouth:

"In my opinion, Irish patriots are writing one of the most heroic chapters in human history. They have earned the respect and admiration of the world, and likewise they deserve its support. Ten of them have already died in the most moving gesture of sacrifice, selflessness and courage one could ever imagine…. Let tyrants tremble before men who are capable of dying for their ideals after 60 days of hunger strike! What were Christ's three days in Calvary, an age-old symbol of human sacrifice, compared to that example? It is high time for the world community to put an end to this repulsive atrocity of the Castroit regime through denunciation and pressure!”

Indeed it is. This is one of the few times that I totally agree with the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
 
Lady in White Sentenced to One Year in Prison After Summary Trial
Lady in White Sentenced to One Year in Prison After Summary Trial – Translating Cuba

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Lady in White, Yolanda Santana Ayala.

14ymedio, Havana, 8 July 2018 — Havana’s Municipal Court of Arroyo Naranjo sentenced Lady in White Yolanda Santana Ayala to one year in prison for the crime of disobedience due to the non-payment of fines, according to Berta Soler, leader of the human rights opposition movement, who spoke with 14ymedio.

“Yolanda Santana and other Ladies in White have been threatened for weeks by State Security with being taken to prison if they do not leave the movement,” Soler told this newspaper.

The Penal Code establishes that a person who “disobeys the decisions of the authorities or public officials” can be sentenced to a term of from three months to one year in prison.

“We have the cases of Gladys Capote and Micaela Roll who are being threatened with going to jail. Those fines are imposed on us when we go out on the street every Sunday and violate the police operation they maintain around our Lawton headquarters and around the houses of the Ladies,” she adds.

According to Soler, the declared objective of the Government is that the Ladies in White Movement disappear.
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The Castroit regime Penal Code establishes that a person who “disobeys the decisions of the authorities or public officials” can be sentenced to a term of from three months to one year in prison.

The regime justice system is a mockery of the rule of law. There are no impartial lawyers, the regime tells them everything they have to do, judge, defend, imprison, publish or investigate. The regime acts as judge, jury and executioner. It is not and will not be under the current circumstances and new constitution, a state of law at all.
 
Berta Soler says Castro regime is determined to annihilate Ladies in White
https://babalublog.com/2018/07/11/b...-is-determined-to-annihilate-ladies-in-white/
July 11, 2018 by Carlos Eire

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From our Annals of Castroism Bureau

The leader of the Ladies in White is once again calling for help from the international community.

Berta Soler is warning that the Castro regime has intensified its repression of the Ladies in White and is determined to annihilate the dissident organization.

Soler also admits that the increased violence and harassment that the Ladies are subjected to day after day has caused a significant reduction in the group’s membership.

So, for now, at least, it looks as if Castro, Inc. is winning and well on its way to silencing these brave women permanently.

Meanwhile, none of those individuals, celebrities, organizations, or governments who constantly denounce racism ever raise their voices in defense of the Ladies, most of whom are Cubans of African descent.

Imagine the uproar if a peaceful group of “women of colour” (the politically correct term) in any other country were constantly arrested and beaten and subjected to harassment.
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The fundamental right of peaceful demonstration is not honored by the Castroit regime. Week after week the Ladies in White in their walk to church on Sunday are harassed and violently attack by the regime security agents. The harassment has intensify under Díaz-Canel with the purpose of get rid of the Ladies in White. Maybe the international community will respond to their call for help.
 
Sandokan said:
The fundamental right of peaceful demonstration is not honored by the Castroit regime. Week after week the Ladies in White in their walk to church on Sunday are harassed and violently attack by the regime security agents. The harassment has intensify under Díaz-Canel with the purpose of get rid of the Ladies in White. Maybe the international community will respond to their call for help.
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But the effect of doing that is going to be negative since the protest of Cubans dissatisfied with the regime will become vocal, there repression would become harsher and the protests will become violent. The regime will then use deadly force and the people will retaliate with sabotage, work stoppages and vandalize of stores and warehouses. Cuba redux like Venezuela and Nicaragua.
 
Dissident Group Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White) Denounces 23 Arrests this Sunday in Cuba
https://translatingcuba.com/disside...ite-denounces-23-arrests-this-sunday-in-cuba/

Translated by Wilfredo Díaz Echevarría
August 30, 2018

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Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White, is arrested during a demonstration in Havana. (Damas de Blanco)

EFE via 14ymedio, Havana, 27 August 2018 – The Cuban dissident movement Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White) denounced on Monday the “harassment” by authorities and the temporary detention of 23 of its members in Havana and the western province of Matanzas, after attending Sunday Mass in different churches or upon leaving their homes.

In Matanzas 17 women were arrested as were six others in Havana, including the leader of the opposition group, Berta Soler.

Soler explained that for more than two years the authorities have not allowed the women to reach the Santa Rita Church in Havana, where the group attended mass weekly since its formation in 2003, and at the conclusion of services demonstrated for the release of political prisoners on the island.
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The Ladies in White are a peaceful civic movement made up of wives and female relatives of jailed dissidents. Since 2003, they have consistently advocated for the release of political prisoners in Cuba by attending mass every Sunday wearing white clothing, to symbolize peace, and silently walking through the streets. The Castroit regime continues to harassed, arrest and imprison members of the Ladies in White with the object to obliterate them. No matter what they are going through, there is light at the end of the tunnel and if they keep moving toward it they will reached it and accomplish their mission.
 
Another Sunday, another wave of repression in Cuba: 19 Ladies in White arrested
https://babalublog.com/2018/10/08/a...pression-in-cuba-19-ladies-in-white-arrested/

October 8, 2018 by Carlos Eire

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Here we go again.

Good luck finding this story in any mainstream news outlet.

Berta Soler and her Ladies in White deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. But will they ever be recognized?
Translated from Marti Noticias

Nineteen Ladies in White were arrested in Cuba during the 161st Sunday of repression against the campaign Todos Marchamos for the freedom of the political prisoners and against the attempts of the members of the group to attend mass.

In a telephone contact with Radio Martí, the former political prisoner of the Group of 75 Angel Moya Acosta said that the most arrests were in the province of Matanzas, with 13, followed by Havana and Santiago de Cuba, with three each .

Moya noted that several of those arrested were later released on public roads, in places far from their homes. The leader of the civil group, Bertha Soler, was arrested after leaving her headquarters in the neighborhood of Lawton, and until Monday morning she had not been released.

The former prisoner of conscience added that in spite of the repression several Ladies managed to attend mass in churches of Matanzas, Artemisa and Havana, although not in the church of Santa Rita, the Catholic parish that the Ladies attended since the Black Spring of 2003 and where now political police operatives do not even allow them to arrive.

On the other hand, reported Moya, the Lady in White and member of the Patriotic Union of Cuba Xiomara de las Mercedes Cruz, currently in prison, was transferred the day she was to receive a family visit to a prison in Ciego de Avila. Another member of both organizations and expresses policy, Yunet Cairo, is summoned to the Tribunal of Centro Habana on Monday.
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Without freedom of expression and constant repression of human rights, no sustainable development will be possible. The Castroit regime will never generate trust or hope, its partisan ideological goals are above the right of the Cuban people. It will take some time but its reckoning time will arrived.
 
Arrests of Cuban Activists "Notoriously Greater" in November
https://translatingcuba.com/arrests-of-cuban-activists-notoriously-greater-in-november/

14ymedio
December 3, 2018

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The CCDHRN highlights that among the activists arrested last month was Yasmani Ovalle León, a member of Unpacu. (Screen capture)


14ymedio, Havana, 3 December 2018 — The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) reported that there were “at least 247 arbitrary arrests of peaceful opponents for purely political reasons” in November, according to its latest report released Monday. The independent organization suggests that the figure may be higher due to “the opacity with which the repressive forces act.”

In the report, the CCDHRN points out that the number of arrests of activists is “notoriously greater” to those that took place during the month of October, in which 202 of these violations of citizens’ rights were documented.

Among the civil society organizations that suffered the most arbitrary arrests are the Ladies in White, the United Antitotalitarian Front (Fantu), the Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unpacu) and the OZT (Orlando Zapata Tamayo) Civic Action Front.

The Commission warns of two new political prisoners: Unpacu members Carlos Elvis Pérez Torres sentenced to three years for the charge of “Pre-criminal Social Dangerousness” and Yasmani Ovalle León, pending trial.
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The Castroit regime State Security have been extremely busy, 247 arbitrary arrests in one month. The repression against the dissidents continuous unabated. State Security Agents continuous to harass and arrest them to prevent them from exercising their basic rights. Dissidents keep paying a high price for their actions. “Pre-criminal Social Dangerousness” is a legal charge under the Castroit regime law that allow it to detain people whom they think they are likely to commit crimes in the future. Under the regime penal code, the charge covers behaviors contrary “to the standards of communist morality.” The charge carries a penalty of up to four years in prison, even if they do not commit a real crime. By using this law the regime imprisons people without justification.
 
The regime apparently has the power to look into the future and determine who will commit a crime, so it locks them up before they can commit it. According to Amnesty International the charge is used almost exclusively against dissidents. The “criminals” are Cubans opposed to the political, economic or other policies of the Castroit regime. The implementation of this controversial law was used to confine people who had committed no crime punishable by law in concentration camps established in Camagüey province from 1965 to 1968 called Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP), to confined dissidents, homosexuals, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and other such “scum.”
 
Nearly Two Dozen Cuban Dissidents on Hunger Strike After Violent Crackdown
Cuban Dissidents on Hunger Strike After Violent Arrests

by Francs Martel, 13 Feb 2019

The head of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), a Cuban pro-democracy organization, announced Wednesday that 23 members of the group are on hunger strike after violent raids resulted in a mass arrest of fellow members in anticipation of the communist regime staging a fraudulent “constitutional referendum” this month.

UNPACU, along with the other major dissident organizations on the island, is urging Cubans to either vote against the referendum, which asks Cubans whether they approve of a new constitution already written and passed by the rubber-stamp legislature that operates under dictator Raúl Castro, and of which Miguel Díaz-Canel is the president.

Díaz-Canel revealed on Twitter Monday that the constitution is already “approved,” leaving many to ask why the government is staging a vote on the matter.

In addition to urging Cubans to vote “yes” on an already-approved constitution, the Cuban government has begun to use violent repression against dissidents advocating for a “no” vote or an abstention. José Daniel Ferrer, the head of UNPACU, and another 20 members of the group revealed on Tuesday that they received beatings during nationwide arrests on Monday triggered by their public political sentiments.
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The regime does not care about their hunger strike. One of the few non-violent ways to be heard in the 60 years Castroit regime, is going in a hunger strike as an act of political protest. It is very sad that these hunger strikes have to be used to bring world opinion to bear against the oppression and denial of freedom by the regime in order to bring change.
 
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