Where Protest Signs Are a "Crime"

at 1:33 PM Sunday, May 1, 2011

BY: THE HILL

Last week, Cuban pro-democracy leaders Dr. Darsi Ferrer, Juan Mario Rodríguez, Yusnaimi Jorge, Ricardo Aguilar and Joaquín Sarduy were arrested for demonstrating with signs in front of the Castro regime's ice cream parlor, Coppelia.

(Absurdly enough, Castro expropriated all of the island's ice cream parlors in 1959 and replaced them with only one outlet, the regime-owned Coppelia).

The blog Penultimos Dias has obtained pictures (below) of the peaceful protest.

Their "crime" was carrying protest signs reading:

"We are hostages of the Castros"
"Our freedom is being stolen by the Cuban government"
"I'm a hostage of the MININT" (Castro's repressive Ministry of the Interior).

According to the protesters, as they were being violently apprehended, regular Cubans passing-by would yell insults at the Castro regime's police forces (in solidarity with the protesters).