MIAMI, United States. – The leader of the Ladies in White, Berta Soler, was released on Wednesday morning after being detained and disappeared for almost three days. This was reported by her husbandthe former political prisoner Angel Moya Acostain a Facebook post.
Soler was arrested on Sunday, September 22 by paramilitary repressors when she was leaving the headquarters of the Ladies in White in Lawton, Havana, and transferred to different police units, first to Aguilera and then to Cotorro.
Moya Acosta explained that Soler was released at 7:45 a.m. on Wednesday. During her detention, she was confined in “semi-dark cells, without water and without possession of her Bible.” Despite the harsh conditions of her detention, the former political prisoner indicated that Soler was released “without charges, without fines and she was not threatened.”
For her part, activist Rosa María Payá, leader of the citizen platform Cuba Decide, spoke out on the social network X. “[A Berta Soler] They locked her in a cell until today after 7:00 a.m. Thank God she is fine but she is still in danger. The blackmail and harassment against her and the Ladies in White continues,” wrote Payá.
This Tuesday, Amnesty International (AI) He launched a call the Cuban regime to immediately release Soler. In a post by X, the organization directly questioned Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel about the activist’s whereabouts: “Miguel Díaz-Canel, where is Berta Soler?”
Soler, a key figure in Cuba’s women’s opposition movement, was arrested by plainclothes officers as she left the Ladies in White National Headquarters on Sunday.
On Monday, Moya complained that authorities had not provided any information about her whereabouts, raising concerns about her safety. “I hold the communist regime of Cuba and State Security responsible for Berta’s physical integrity,” Moya told reporters. CubaNet.
The Ladies in White, a group formed by relatives of political prisoners from the Black Spring of 2003, continue to be a constant target of harassment by Cuban authorities.
Currently, five Ladies in White remain imprisoned for their peaceful activism in defense of human rights: Sissi Abascal Zamora, Sayli Navarro Alvarez, Jacqueline Heredia Morales, Tania Echevarria Menendez and Aymara Nieto Munoz.
