(EFE).- The leader of the Ladies in White, Berta Soler, and her husband, also an activist Ángel Moya, were detained again for several hours on Sunday, as confirmed by the opposition on Monday.
“They impose a fine of 7.50 pesos on me for being undocumented and they confine me in a cell until they release me at 11:20 p.m. on public roads near the national headquarters of the Ladies in White,” Moya wrote on his Facebook account. .
The two activists were arrested this Sunday when they tried to go out again, for the seventh consecutive Sunday, to demand the release of those detained in connection with the July 11 anti-government protests.
As they explained, the arrest took place outside the headquarters of the Ladies in White in Lawton, Havana.
According to Moya, both were transferred to different detention centers, where they were held in a cell for more than ten hours.
“(Berta and Ángel) were arrested and disappeared at 11:16 in the morning on Calle E and Porvenir in Lawton when they went out to exercise their right to freedom,” the member of the Ladies in White denounced on networks on Sunday. Lourdes Esquivel Vieyto.
According to Moya, both were transferred to different detention centers, where they were held in a cell for more than ten hours.
Since the Ladies in White announced that they would protest every Sunday, as before the pandemic, demanding the release of those detained for the July 11 anti-government protests, they have been arrested every week.
The Ladies in White movement emerged in 2003, following a wave of repression by the Cuban government that was called the Black Spring. Two years later, they won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament.
The EU and NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International criticized this wave of arrests for political reasons. The Cuban authorities, however, alleged that they were attempting against national sovereignty on orders from the United States.
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