Plainclothes women at the service of State Security detained this Sunday a group of Ladies in White along with the mothers of some political prisoners, among whom was Bárbara Farrat, the mother of the 17-year-old Jonathan Torres, imprisoned after the protests of the July 11 (J11).
“They were arrested when leaving the organization’s national headquarters in Lawton-Havana,” activist Ángel Moya Acosta spread on his social networks. Hours earlier, he had reported Farrat’s arrival at the national headquarters of the Ladies in White. “Cuban political prisoners are waiting for everyone. Together we can do more,” he stressed.
In social networks “Farrat’s bravery” was highlighted, who in an intimidating act was arrested for hours in December 2022. Meanwhile, the activist Saily González shared a video in a Twitter message in which Disney Azahares More, sister of Dixan Gainza, arrested for demonstrating on 11J, along with other relatives of political prisoners from Camagüey, went to the Church in support of the Ladies in White to “demand freedom for political prisoners from Cuba”.
Last Saturday, Ángel Moya Acosta denounced on his Facebook account the “repressive operation” deployed by members of State Security dressed in civilian clothes in the vicinity of the headquarters of the Ladies in White.
Last Saturday Ángel Moya Acosta denounced the “repressive operation” deployed by members of State Security dressed in civilian clothes in the vicinity of the headquarters of the Ladies in White
The activists had announced on Friday that this Sunday they were going to resume the demonstrations in the streets of Cuba. “We activate the confrontation campaign for the freedom of all political prisoners without exclusion,” they announced.
The message was broadcast last Friday, the same day that the Justice 11J platform reported that Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, William Manuel Leyva Pupo, Yosvany Rosell García, Cruz García Domínguez and Chadrián Vila Sequin, detained during the popular protests of July 11, were on a hunger strike.
The complaint highlights that the trials carried out so far are held behind closed doors, under operations in the vicinity of the courts and only the presence of a family member of the accused is allowed.
In this context, a message shared by Berta Soler on her social networks says that the “moral and political” commitment of every Lady in White is “to support the relatives of political prisoners who act for the freedom of their loved one.”
In the morning, sun reported the theft, for the second time, from the padlock and chain of the gate of his apartment, located in Alamar, in Havana. This event was considered by the Lady in White as “an attempted robbery so that I leave the headquarters and stop my activism. There is no pact with the communists, stop the street, keep stealing.”
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