Thirteen New Prisoners of Conscience

BY: THE HILL

The following is a list of pro-democracy activists who have been recently arrested and now face prosecution for their opposition to the Castro dictatorship:

Arrested August 28, 2011, when paramilitary forces tear-gassed the home of activist Marino Antomarchit in Palma Soriano:

Miguel Rafael Cabrera Montoya, Bismarck Mustelier Galan, Jose Enrique Martinez Ferrer, Nivaldo Amelo Ramirez, Alexis Aguirrezabal Rodriguez, Alexis Yachoi Kuan Jerez, and Victor Campa Almenares.

They are accused of “disorderly conduct” and are being held under inhumane conditions in the Aguadores Prison in Santiago de Cuba.

Arrested September 24, 2011, while carrying out a peaceful march in the Havana neighborhood of Rio Verde and falsely accused of “assault”:

Sara Marta Fonseca Quevedo (held in the Fourth Police Unit in El Cerro, Havana) and her husband, Julio Leon Perez. Sara Marta (pictured below) is on a hunger strike and can hardly walk due to the injuries to her back caused by the beatings during her arrest.

Arrested on Thursday, September 8, 2011, following a verbal dispute with the head of a local Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR):

Yelena Garces Napoles (held in the Women's Prison of Mar Verde in Santiago de Cuba) who is President of the Latin American Federation of Rural Women (FLAMUR), and activists, Reinaldo Rodriguez Martinez, Jose Batista Falcon and Hector Felix Labrada Muñoz.

They are accused of “disorderly conduct” and “assault.”

H/T Coalition of Cuban-American Women