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They denounce beating given by police to a young woman during protests in Holguín

Elizabeth López, who filmed the recent protests in Holguín, ended up with bruises on her arms, face and neck, in addition to swollen lips as a result of the blows inflicted by a police officer, still unidentified.


The young woman Elizabeth Lopez, 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 girl and her boyfriend They filmed the demonstrations when, unarmed and defenseless, she was attacked by a police officer who has not yet been identified, like the unit to which she belongs, reported on Facebook a person identified as Yarenis Dotres.

“The photos show the excessive physical violence used by him (the police officer) against the unarmed and defenseless young woman Elizabeth López, also taking the power to break her cell phone and deal blows everywhere to anyone who got in front of her.” ”, details the publication.

Facebook Capture/Yarenis Dotres

In the images that accompany the complaint, bruises can be seen on the young López's arms, face and neck, and her lips are swollen as a result of the blows. You can also see the glass of the mobile phone shattered.

“We will know the name of that supposed officer soon, he will be tried in the court of the tired, hungry but dignified people who only demand their elementary rights. He will be judged by God who will take control of our nation that groans, sobs and cries out loud because of the extreme poverty in which it is living,” said Dotres.

He called the police officer a “torturer, irrational, abuser, repressor,” who “violated the human rights of the civilian population and he hit without rhyme or reason as if he were the absolute owner of the citizenship and Cuba was his farm or his backyard.”

In the publication, he also maintains that hunger, scarcity, lack of freedom and government repression They motivated the people of Holguín to take to the streets to ask for “justice, prosperity, food, electricity, water.”

At the same time, Dotres asked herself: “How long will there be so much violence, abuse, arrogance, and despotism? How long will the Castro-Canel dictatorship and its public servants, its only communist political party, continue pitting people against people in an irrational and legendary hatred? How long will there be so much corruption, hunger, shortages, lack of medicines, transportation, political prisoners, mass exodus, violation of human rights?”

Finally, he reflected: “Is more than six decades not enough? When will justice, genuine freedom, peace, progress and democracy that the Cuban people cry out for and demand come?

Precisely, this reality that the publication denounces recently motivated people to take to the streets in various parts of the country.

In early March, in the town of San Andrés, in the province of Holguín, people protested to demand better living conditions and the regime responded with the usual repression. As a result of this government reaction, six people were arrested.

In Cienfuegos, Eric Luis Acea Quevedo, father of a little girl, broke the windows of a provincial government car in protest against the prolonged blackouts. After his arrest, The young man was brutally beaten by Cuban police officers.

The same discontent of the people with the regime motivated that, on the 17th and 18th of this month, several cities in Cuba witnessed the popular demand for freedom, food and electricity.

Authorities detained at least 32 people, according to denounced the organization Prisoners Defenders.

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