Incessant Activism (and Repression)

at 11:02 AM Friday, May 27, 2011


BY: THE HILL


Yesterday, the Castro regime arrested 13 pro-democracy activists in the city of Santa Clara, as they held a peaceful march in honor of deceased political prisoners.

Amongst those arrested were Guillermo Farinas (recipient of the European Parliament's 2011 Sakharov Prize), Jorge Luis Garcia Perez (Antunez) and Librado Linares Garcia (one of the 11 political prisoners released within Cuba last year).

Meanwhile, in the town of Placetas, Yris Tamara Perez Aguilera (head of the Rosa Parks Feminist Movement), was brutally beaten and arrested along with two other female activists.

Here's an eye-witness account from one of her colleagues, who was subsequently released:

"Yris was the subject of a brutal beating by a State Security official known as 'the weightlifter.' Her hands were numb, she was vomiting, had headaches, dizziness, she's epileptic, has diabetes and asthma. We don't know where they took her. We don't know if she died, or what conditions they left her in."

Perez Aguilera's whereabouts remain unknown.

More "reform" you can't believe in.