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Protest marchers beaten, detained
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/02/1903584/protest-marchers-beaten-detained.html#ixzz147fA1ttz
Cuban authorities cracked down on a march Sunday to pray at the tomb of a dissident whose death became a rallying cry for human rights activists.


BY JUAN O. TAMAYO
jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com
Posted on Tuesday, 11.02.10

Cuban security agents beat and detained about 40 dissidents after the mother of the late political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo and her supporters prayed at his tomb, activists reported Monday.
The mother, Reina Luisa Tamayo, said she was repeatedly hit on the head, thrown to the ground and gagged with a smelly rag that left her breathless as she shouted anti-government slogans.

Security officers also kicked several handcuffed young men during the incident Sunday, added Marlon Martorell, a dissident who took part in the protest.

While the news media was reporting the latest "reforms" being implemented by Raul Castro, Reina Luisa Tamayo and 40 other dissidents were getting brutally beaten in the town of Banes, Holguin (Oriente) province. They were being stoned and rounded up like cattle.Banes was the birthplace of Fulgencio Batista, located about 20 miles north from the small town of Biran. Fidel Castro birthplace.
 
Cuban dissidents say cops again beat womenCuban dissidents say cops again beat women - Cuba - MiamiHerald.com

For the fourth week, security forces in Santiago halt Ladies in White
By Juan O. Tamayo

Cuban dissidents complained that security forces blocked about 20 supporters of the Ladies in White from reaching a church service Sunday in the eastern city of Santiago, including nine women who were beaten and humiliated.
The Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White) are a group in Cuba of the wives and other relatives of jailed dissidents. They have been protesting the imprisonments of their husbands by going to Mass each Sunday dressed in white and silently walking through the streets. The white color of the dresses is used as a symbol of peace. In 2005 they were awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
 
Ladies in White again attacked in Cubahttp://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/08/19/2148506/ladies-in-white-again-attacked.html

By JUAN O. TAMAYO
August 19, 2011

MIAMI Cuban government supporters attacked more than 40 members and supporters of Ladies in White in what a spokeswoman called the worst violence against the Havana group since the Catholic Church interceded on their behalf in the spring.
The regime apologists blame the attacks on the supporters of the Ladies in White, not in the violence of the goons and thugs prompted by Raúl Castro speech at the sixth communist party congress saying that “it is necessary to make clear that we will never deny the peoples’ right to defend the revolution. The defense of the independence, of the conquests of Socialism and of our streets and plazas will still be the first duty of every Cuban patriot." The regime apologists are very predictable, blame the victim not the aggressor.
 
Castro vs. the Ladies in White
Mary Anastasia O'Grady: Castro's Goons vs. the Ladies in White - WSJ.com

By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
August 29, 2011

Rocks, iron bars and sticks are no match for the gladiolas and courage of these peaceful Cuban protesters.
Many in the mainstream media remain silent on the assault by mobs organized by the state security of the regime against the Ladies in White. These peaceful ladies are asking only that their cause be acknowledged and the repression expose.

The majority of the people depend mostly on the mainstream media for their news, but thanks to ideological blinders of many in the mainstream media remain they know very little about the attacks by the Castros’ goons against the peaceful Cuban dissidents.
 
Video shows armed Cuban police breaking up student protesthttp://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/10/1816918/students-strike-in-cuba-draws.html

A strike by Pakistani students in Cuba drew a show of force from an anti-riot squad not seen before on the streets of the island.
BY JUAN O. TAMAYO
jtamayo@elnuevoherald.com
Posted on Friday, 09.10.10

A Cuban anti-riot squad, previously unseen but surprisingly well-equipped and with fixed bayonets, quelled a Pakistani student protest in Matanzas, a video of the event shows.

TROPAS ANTIMOTINES ENTRAN A UNA ESCUELA CUBANA (PARTE 1) - YouTube
Riot police halts student protest in Matanzas, Cuba
This is a forerunner of things to come. On September 08, 2010, a Pakistanis students strike, complaining about the quality of their medical education, was put down by the regime anti-riot squad.

The reasons riot police didn't use force against the students was that the protest wasn’t violent and they were afraid to been recorded and posted in the internet for the whole world to see. If the students have started to throw rocks and bottles, the riot police would have used whatever methods to squelch it. As they said it in the video, “Our hand will not tremble in the face of violence.”
 
The cell phone video shows Pakistanis medical students besieged by Cuban security dressed in full riot gear and assault rifles with fixed bayonets. Bayonets, other than in drill an ceremonial occasions, are used as a weapon in close combat. To some extent it seems extreme this show of force against unarmed students.
 
On Cuba’s Capitol StepsReview & Outlook: On Cuba's Capitol Steps - WSJ.com

Four women speak the unspeakable.
Opinion
August 27, 2011

The four Cuban women who took to the steps of the capitol in Havana last week chanting "liberty" for 40 minutes weren't exactly rebel forces. But you wouldn't know that by the way the Castro regime reacted. A video of the event shows uniformed state security forcibly dragging the women to waiting patrol cars. They must have represented a threat to the regime because they were interrogated and detained until the following day.
The video of the incident recorded an unprecedented show of vocal support from the people for the four women staging the protest. Normally passersby don’t get involve since they fear the
crack down of state security agents and government mobs. The Cuban people are showing more sings that they are on the side of the dissidents
Video link: Protestan mujeres en el Capitolio de La Habana - YouTube
 
The four women are exercising their right to freedom of speech. The tyranny is getting more nervous since the tweets of what is happening in Egypt, Libya and Syria are been send to cell phones in Cuba, and people around the world are watching.
 
New Videos: Crowds Defend Pro-Democracy Activists
Faces of Repression
Capitol Hill Cubans: New Videos: Crowds Defend Pro-Democracy Activists

at 1:36 AM Saturday, August 27, 2011
Yesterday, Cuban pro-democracy activists, Ivonne Mallesa Galano and Rosario Morales la Rosa, staged a street-corner protest in Havana.
#Cuba: Protesta en Cuatro Caminos, La Habana - YouTube
The two women protested during two hour against the Castros regime at the Cuatro Caminos Plaza in the center of Havana banging pots and pans, The onlookers, after the women arrest by the police, fallow them to the police station where they demonstrated their support for them shouting libertad (freedom), libertad, libertad. These incidents demonstrate that the Cuban people are losing fear of the Castros tyranny.
 
Dissidents say police used tear gas in a raid, beat womenDissidents say police used tear gas in a raid, beat women - Cuba - MiamiHerald.com

For the first time in years, Cuban police used tear gas in a raid over the weekend. Women also accuse police of beating and sexually harassing them over.

By Juan O. Tamayo
jtamayo@elnuevoherald.com
Posted on Monday, 08.29.11

Cuban police used tear gas in a weekend raid against dissidents in eastern Santiago province, where State Security agents also pummeled and made obscene gestures at dissident women, opposition activists reported Monday
.The residence where dissident members were seeking refuge was tear gassed in order to get them to come out and beaten by the Rapid Response Brigades. This video is another evidence of the growing and strengthening opposition movement in Cuba: Brutal represión en #Cuba con Gases Lacrimógenos - YouTube
 
Castros’ regime is afraid of the people, and is willing to do anything in its power to control their protests. But every single act of repression against the people brings them closer to its demise. The oppression and repression of the Cuban people for the last 52 years is coming to an end.
 
Castro will be next on the chopping block.
 
Cuba steps up attacks on dissidents, activists say
Cuba steps up attacks on dissidents, activists say - CNN.com

By the CNN Wire Staff
September 1, 2011

Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba has stepped up its harassment of dissidents in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, with authorities beating, gassing and arresting protesters critical of the Communist government, human rights activists said Wednesday.

During the past five weekends, the government has strongly repressed peaceful protests in several eastern cities, said Elizardo Sanchez, the head of the island's unofficial Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation. In at least one case, in the town of Palma Soriano, forces used gas -- either pepper spray or tear gas -- against one family, Sanchez said.

Among those targeted are the Ladies in White, a group of mothers, sisters and friends of jailed dissidents who hold regular marches, said Berta Soler, one of its founding members.

"Starting on July 17, the government has been responsible for criminal, violent acts against women who only want to go to the church for Mass, to pray and ask for freedom for political prisoners," Soler told CNN.
Well, well, at last the Castro National Network (CNN) started to report the protests, because until now their Havana Bureau had been silent about the protests by the dissidents. Look that independent news sources on the internet that have been reporting the protests motivated the agency to report it too.
 
The Castros regime is and always has been a fraud, held together with propaganda that only the uninformed believes. Now it is being exposed for what it has always been and is coming apart at the seams.
 
Street protest in Palma Soriano, Cuba

Here is a video of the courageous opposition members staging a protest in Palma Soriano, Oriente Province, Cuba, September 6, speaking out and fighting back against the regime mobs organized by the Castros regime to intimidate and attack peaceful activists.

People staging the protest started to shout: “Down with the dictatorship, assassins, assassins, assassins. Down with Fidel, down, down, down. Freedom, freedom, freedom. Down with the hunger, down with terrorism.

Abajo la dictadura, asesinos. Abajo Fidel, abajo. Libertad, libertad. Abajo el hambre, abajo el terrorismo.
This protest was in response to the attack with tear gas and ransack of Mario Antomarchi Rivero humble family home These protests are only the ones caught on video. Many more are not caught on video o reported to the general public. They are never carried on the regime controlled TV.
 
Seem that the time is ripe for the Cuban people to rise up in justify anger and rage, and march in the streets calling for the demise of the Castro brothers’ regime; to be replace for a form of government more in tune with the people. Let not forget that around 20 percent of the Cuban population has chosen to escape the island of Dr. Castro, rather than yield to his insane experiment.
 
Cuba won't allow refugee’s son to come to Canada
Cuba won't allow refugee

CBC News

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Yadier Perez Leon wants his son to join him in Canada. (Facebook)

While many Canadians' image of Cuba includes sandy beaches and tropical drinks, one St. John's resident paints a very different picture.

Yadier Perez Leon arrived two years ago after escaping his native Cuba by boat. It was a harrowing journey, during which the craft ran out of gas, leaving them stranded on an island for two weeks.

They eventually landed in Florida, after being discovered by the US Coast Guard. After months of bureaucratic processing, Canadian officials approved him as a refugee in February.

Now Leon wants his 5 year-old son to join him.

As a refugee, he has one year to bring relatives to Canada. But Cuban officials are making it tough. Despite repeated dealings with the consul in Montreal, the government there won't allow the boy to leave.
Leon says their resistance stems from a long-standing grudge.

During the communist revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959, people had their property taken away. Leon's grandfather owned a large farm and a lot of livestock, all of which was seized. His family continued to express disagreement about this over the years.

According to Leon, the Cuban government can make life difficult for those who show dissent.
Several years ago, the island nation was struck by a hurricane. While other residents received government assistance to rebuild, his mother did not. Leon was incapacitated at the time, following a bad motorcycle accident, and was unable to help.

Discouraged and bedridden, it was then that he made the decision to leave.

"I say, 'Okay, Yadier, you need to get out (of) the bed, make yourself strong,'" said Leon, who is now learning to speak English in St. John's. "You need (to) go outside this country because you don't have too much time in the life. In this country, you don't have any opportunity."

Now Leon wants the same opportunity for his son.

"This boy, my little son need me, the only father he have," said Leon, whose wife died only two days after giving birth to their child. "And I need him."

He hopes getting the word out will help resolve the situation.

"Please, call everyone in the world, everyone in this country," said Leon. "Everyone hear this situation, help me for my son stay with me as soon as possible."
The Castroit tyrannical military regime is preventing a five years old boy from reunited with his father. There will not be any international outrage or media coverage of this story by the MSM unlike the Elian case. They will ignore this story.
 
Cuban human rights groups report more than 500 political arrests in August
Uncommon Sense: Cuban human rights groups report more than 500 political arrests in August

Uncommon Sense
September 4, 2012

However you count it, the repression in Cuba does not let up.

The Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation reports there were 521 political arrests in Cuba in August -- more than twice the number reported in August 2011.

The Hablemos Press Information Center (CIHPRESS), an independent news agency that keeps close tabs on repression in Cuba, reports there were 538 political arrests last month, the highest monthly total since March.

The differing counts reveal the challenges that human rights activists face as they try to hold the regime for its repression.

But as important as the bottom-line numbers, are the trends.

Whatever the wishful, delusional thinking of those who believe that if we allow more money, in the form or travel or remittances or trade, to flow to Cuba, the more likely the Castros will change their ways, the repression is getting worse.

However you count it, the suffering in Cuba is getting worse.

As long as there are Cubans with the courage to resist, and with the blood-thirst of the Castros to stifle their opposition, that will not change.
The tyrannical Castroit monarchy keeps outdoing itself with regard to the repression of the human rights activists. During the last two years the harassment and detention of dissidents across the island has risen sharply.

This video by Amnesty International reveals new tactics by the Cuban regime security apparatus to punish individuals which oppose the regime.
Routine repression in Cuba
 
44 Ladies in White Beaten and Arrested
Capitol Hill Cubans: 44 Ladies in White Beaten and Arrested

Where are all the international women's rights activists?

Where are the foreign news bureaus in Cuba?

This behavior is deplorable.

From the leader of The Ladies in White, Berta Soler:

The Ladies in White Movement denounces the detention of 44 Ladies in White across the island on Sunday, November 11th, by the Cuban government's State Security forces, in order to prevent their attendance in Mass.

Nine women were arrested in Havana; 5 in Pinar del Rio; 2 in Matanzas; 3 in Santa Clara; 6 in Holguin; 1 in Caimanera; and 18 in Santiago de Cuba.

Romelia Piña González and Marlenis Abreu Almaguer were dragged and beaten in Holguin in front of the Church Cristo Redentor del Hombre by male State Security agents.

State Security agents posted outside of the Cathedral of Santiago de Cuba beat and dragged all 18 Ladies in White as they came out of the temple after attending Mass.
Three of the women were injured: Aimé Garcés Leiva lost a tooth, Denia Fernández Rey lost two teeth and Omagli González Leiva fractured fingers and an arm.

Courtesy of the Coalition of Cuban-American Women.

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The repression against the Ladies in White continuous unabated. State Security Agents continuous to harass and arrest them to prevent them from exercising their rights to pacifically assemble and attend mass.
 
Castro brothers and the military/political elite should be sanctioned for this and so many other violations they have been constantly inflicting upon the Cuban population, at the same time that they deceive and laugh at the whole world.
 
Cuba cracks down on dissidents on Human Rights Day
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/11/3136204/cuba-cracks-down-on-dissidents.html

By JUAN O. TAMAYO — The Miami Herald

MIAMI — Cuban police have detained more than 100 dissidents and put another 100 to 150 under house arrest in an island-wide crackdown to block any gatherings marking International Human Rights Day on Monday, according to government opponents.

Among those detained were about 80 members and supporters of the Ladies in White, including dozens who were reportedly carted off roughly during roundups in Havana and on their way to the Our Lady of Charity Basilica in the eastern town of El Cobre.

Security agents also sealed off several homes in eastern Cuba to avert gatherings of dissidents to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, head of the opposition Cuban Patriotic Union.

The U.S. government swiftly denounced the arrests, saying it was "deeply concerned by the Cuban government's repeated use of arbitrary detention and violence to silence critics, disrupt peaceful assembly and intimidate independent civil society."

"We call on the Cuban government to end" the arrests and violence "and we look forward to the day when all Cubans can freely express their ideas," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Monday.
It is a fact that communist regimes declare war against their own people, and the military regime in Cuba is not an exception. That is the reason for the summary executions, the physical and psychological tortures, the kangaroo trials, and the massive prison systems.

Fear and intimidation is all that the Castroit tyrannical regime can offer the enslaved Cuban people. For how long does the corrupt military dictatorship will be able to continue to do this type of repression before they are dragged by their hair into the streets by the Cuban people?
 
Dr. Gustavo Gutierrez y Sanchez, Cuban Lawyer, Jurist, Politician, Diplomat and Economist, wrote a book entitled "La Carta Magna de la Comunidad de las Naciones (The Magna Carta of the Community of Nations) in 1945. At the San Francisco Conference the Republic of Cuba submitted two proposals for consideration, a "Draft Declaration of the International Rights and Duties of the Individual" and a “Draft Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Nations.” These two drafts were written and presented by Dr. Gustavo Gutierrez in his book.

Dr. Gutierrez draft exercised a great influence in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Below you will find a preamble of three proposed drafts. The draft by Dr. Gustavo Gutierrez is the one in the middle.

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Human rights activist says dissident arrests in Cuba up in 2012http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/04/3166825/human-rights-activist-says-dissident.html

Human rights activist says that the number of dissident arrests was well above the 4,120 in 2011 and 2,070 in 2010.

By Juan O. Tamayo
jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com

Cuban security agents made a record 6,602 short-term detentions of political dissidents last year and the number of political prisoners on the island rose by about 30, Havana human rights activist Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz reported Thursday.
The figure of 6,602 confirmed detentions in 2012 compared to 4,123 for 2011 and 2,074 for 2010, according to a year-end report by Sánchez’ Cuban Committee for Human rights and National Reconciliation.

Sánchez also reported separately that the number of political prisoners, which dropped to about 40 after ruler Raúl Castro freed more than 120 in 2010-2011, climbed again last year with the trials and convictions of about 30 Cubans on political charges.

The increased repression, he said, is the result of the growing opposition among Cubans to a government that all but strangled the economy and human rights during more than half a century of communist rule.

“The regime has accumulated an enormous disaster, and the popular dissatisfaction increases by the day,” Sanchez told El Nuevo Herald by phone from Havana. “It has only one answer: repression, pure and harsh.”

In the absence of significant changes, the year-end report added, it “forecasts that during the year 2013 the situation for civil and political rights and other fundamental rights will continue to worsen in Cuba.”

“The totalitarian model continues intact, as the regime continues to perfect and expand its powerful machinery for repression and bureaucracy that … carries with it an unbearable and ruinous cost to the nation,”

Sanchez’ committee, which is technically illegal but is tolerated by the government, also noted in its year-end report that the monthly averages for the short-term detentions spiked from 172 in 2010 to 343 in 2011 and 550 last year.

The vast majority of the 12,800 detentions for 2010-2012 — usually lasting a few hours and designed to harass dissidents or keep them away from opposition activities — also violated legal requirements like court orders and notifications to relatives, it argued.

The committee and other human rights activists “continue demanding that the government of Cuba recognize and respect the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights consecrated in various international declarations,” it added.
About 1,160 of the short-term arrests in 2012 were carried out in March, mostly to keep dissidents from attending masses and other Catholic events during Pope Benedict XVI’s three-day visit to Cuba.

Another 200-250 arrests reported last month were designed to block events marking International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10.

The U.S. State Department quickly condemned the December detentions, saying it was “deeply concerned by the Cuban government’s repeated use of arbitrary detention and violence to silence critics, disrupt peaceful assembly and intimidate independent civil society.”
Once again the Castroit tyrannical regime surpasses its record for repression. They don’t allow the voice of the dissidents to be heard. Those that don’t agree with the regimen are sent to jail. Afraid of a Libyan style insurrection they keep increasing the repression, until the day that the pressure in the boiler reach the point of explosion and bring the regime down.
 
Let not forget that this huge increase in repression on the island of Dr. Castro is taking place under the so call reforms of Castro II, which the main stream media constantly talk about.
 
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