Arequipa, Peru – Cuban María Cristina Labrada, member of the Opposition group Ladies de Blanco, denounced this Sunday on social networks the siege and repression of the political police of the Cuban regime.
“My home is besieged with operation from early hours a neighbor tells me that about 7:00 am with a patrol car at the corner of Cortina Street and Milagros Santo Suárez, Havana,” Labrada wrote On Facebook.
In her complaint, the Blanco Lady pointed to the State Security Department as the main responsible for the harassment she has suffered for years.
In recent years, María Cristina Labrada has been a victim not only of isolation within her home, but of harassment in public places and arbitrary arrests by the Castro authorities.
As part of the opposition movement of which the white ladies commemorated on March 30 22 years since their first march in Havana, a milestone that marks more than two decades of peaceful struggle for the freedom of political prisoners in Cuba on March 30.
The movement arose in response to the 2003 black spring, the wave of repression that led to the imprisonment of 75 opponents, including relatives of the white ladies. Laura Pollán, One of the founders of the group became a symbol of resistance when leading peaceful protests with other women dressed in white, representing peace and hope.
The Cuban opposition movement emerged on Sunday, March 30, 2003, after the wives of the then detained as part of the black spring carried out by Fidel Castro reached that agreement while waiting in a common room of the General Staff of the State Security Department, known as Villa Marista, in Havana.
In 2005, Blanco ladies received the Andrei Sájarov Award for freedom of conscience of the European Parliament in recognition of its peaceful activism. Despite harassment and arbitrary arrests by State security, the movement continues to demand the liberation of political prisoners and respect for human rights in Cuba.
