"All free", that is how direct the lawyer Laritza Diversent, executive director at Cubalex, was when reporting the release of the activists, artists and independent journalists who They were arbitrarily detained this Saturday in Cuba, just the day that the beginning of the fight for the country's independence was celebrated.
"The last one was Anamely (Ramos) at 1 A.M. and so much, we were exhausted but with high morale"Diversent said to CyberCuba. In the monitoring list of the repression of this October 10 in Cuba, prepared by Cubalex, there were up to 17 Cubans who were victims of harassment by State Security and those related to the regime. For its part, the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) denounced that a dozen of its members also suffered arbitrary arrests.
Ramos thanked the solidarity received these days on social networks. The art curator, part of the San Isidro Movement, was violently detained for the second time in two days. The young woman is in the house of activist Omara Ruiz Urquiola, from where she will give more details this Sunday about her new arrest.
"We are all free now! We were 17 young people who went out to shout freedom," said independent journalist Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho. In addition to those 17 in Havana, UNPACU activists were also harassed and detained.
"The Coordinator of UNPACU and Promoter of CUBADECIDE, Ismael Boris Reñí and the activist Yunior González Rosabal were violently detained two hours ago. A dozen of our activists detained today. Ismael was beaten and detained in his home in the presence of his children," he noted in Twitter José Daniel Ferrer, national coordinator of UNPACU.
"Today I was beaten by the murderer of the repressor Maykel and a policeman... Today, October 10, the day of the liberation of the slaves, the dictatorship demonstrates once again that we were never free, we are still slaves," wrote Boris Reñí in Facebook.
The scientist and activist Oscar Casanella said that he was released after being locked up for an hour in a closed patrol car at the Cuba and Chacón police station in Old Havana, where he met other opponents (Iris Ruiz and Amaury Pacheco).
"This was torture due to the tremendous heat and discomfort, the sweat was running all over me. Then they took me back to the Cuba and Chacón station and from there they took me to the 4th police station on Infanta and Manglar, in the Cerro. There the security agent Roger interrogated me," he explains. He was finally released where he had his bicycle and was accompanied by that agent and others to his home.
Casanella added that on patrol he learned that "the Marianas", the violent repressive women of the Ladies in White, were in the cultural activity organized by the dictatorship on the street near the house of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, founder of the Movement. San Isidro.
The modus operandi used this Saturday by State Security was precisely to hold cultural political events in the streets of the most controversial activists such as the rapper Maykel Obsorbo.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch They alerted the international community of the repression carried out this October 10 in Havana and other provinces of Cuba. "At this moment, State Security is monitoring and harassing several journalists and dissidents. There may be a wave of arrests," José Miguel Vivanco, director of HRW's Americas Division, said on Twitter.
Among those monitored and detained were the independent activist, Iliana Hernandez, collaborator in CyberCuba, the journalist Camila Costa, María Matienzo, the writer Katherine Bisquet and the artist Tania Brugueras and others.
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