The young Elizabeth López, who recorded the recent protests in the province of Holguín, was brutally beaten by a police officer whose name is unknown.
On March 16, the young woman and her boyfriend were recording the protests when, unarmed and defenseless, she was attacked by a police officer who has yet to be identified, along with the unit to which he belongs, according to a Facebook post by someone identified as Yarenis Dotres.
"The photos reveal the excessive physical violence used by him (the police officer) against the unarmed and defenseless Elizabeth López, also taking it upon himself to break her cell phone and strike anyone who stood in his way," the post details.
The images accompanying the report show bruises on the arms, face, and neck of the young Lopez, as well as swollen lips as a result of the blows. The shattered glass of the mobile phone is also visible.
"The name of that supposed official will be revealed soon; he will be tried in the court of a weary, hungry yet dignified people who only demand their fundamental rights. He will be judged by God, who will take control of our nation that groans, sobs, and cries out for the extreme poverty in which it is living," Dotres stated.
He called the police "torturer, irrational, abuser, oppressor," who "violated the human rights of the civilian population and struck indiscriminately as if he were the absolute owner of the citizens and Cuba were his estate or backyard."
The publication also argues that hunger, scarcity, lack of freedom, and government repression drove the people of Holguín to take to the streets to demand "justice, prosperity, food, electricity, and water."
At the same time, Dotres wondered: "How long will this violence, abuse, arrogance, and despotism continue? How long will the Castro-Canel dictatorship and its public servants, their sole communist political party, keep pitting the people against each other in an irrational and legendary hatred? How long must we endure such corruption, hunger, scarcity, lack of medication, transportation, political prisoners, mass exodus, and violations of human rights?"
Finally, he reflected: "Aren't more than six decades enough? When will the justice, genuine freedom, peace, progress, and democracy that the Cuban people are crying out for arrive?"
Indeed, the reality highlighted by the publication prompted the people to take to the streets in various parts of the country recently.
In early March, in the town of San Andrés in the province of Holguín, people protested for better living conditions, and the regime responded with its usual repression. As a result of this governmental reaction, six individuals were detained.
In Cienfuegos, Eric Luis Acea Quevedo, father of a small girl, broke the windows of a provincial government car in protest against the prolonged blackouts. Following his detention, the young man was brutally beaten by Cuban police officers.
The same discontent among the people with the regime prompted several cities in Cuba to witness a popular demand for freedom, food, and electricity on the 17th and 18th of this month.
The authorities detained at least 32 people, according to a report by the organization Prisoners Defenders.
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