(EFE).- Three Cuban dissidents have been arrested this Monday after calling a press conference in which they intended to present a global strategy against political, gender, racialized, institutionalized and economic violence in the country.
The opponent Manuel Cuesta Morúa explained to EFE that he was temporarily arrested when he was going to the place of the meeting with the media and taken back to his house, where a police team was installed in the surroundings presumably so that he could not leave his house. home.
María Mercedes Benítez and Juan Antonio Madrazo, who had lent a house in Havana for the press conference, were also detained.
The Ministry of the Interior has not ruled so far on these arrests and their causes. The official media have not referred to these events either.
The three arrested were trying to present a security strategy called Shanti, backed by the dissident platforms D’Frente, the Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba (CTDC) and the Democratic Action Unity Table, according to the documents they sent to the media.
The proposal calls for “amnesty and the decriminalization of dissent”, “initiatives against gender violence”, “the recovery of citizen sovereignty” and “the pacification of the streets”
“Cuba is entering a vacuum of violence that is harming individuals, families, communities, groups and sectors of civil society,” warns the press release, which denounces that this violence is being “overshadowed by the media and concealed by the rhetoric of the authorities”.
The document highlights the femicides, 34 so far this year according to the feminist platforms that record them (in the absence of official statistics), the “murders”, “thefts” and “assaults in broad daylight”.
He also talks about the “institutional violence normalized by the political system”, where he stresses the role of the new Penal Code and the recently approved Social Communication Law.
The proposal, which they describe as “ambitious” work, calls for “amnesty and the decriminalization of dissent”, “initiatives against gender violence”, “the recovery of citizen sovereignty” and “the pacification of the streets”.
It also calls for addressing “institutionalized economic inequalities”, “flagrant violations of the Constitution and laws” and establishing a “culture of respect and tolerance” and a language that does not promote “exclusion and hatred from the State and from the society, and by Cuban men and women inside and outside of Cuba”.
Among the symbolic actions he proposes is an “orange march” for Human Rights Day.
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