Opposition member Marianela Peña Cobas was brutally beaten after being detained by authorities during a protest against blackouts in Havana.
“Good morning everyone, they have released my sister, not because they are good, but because there is no prison to hold all the Cubans who are crying out for freedom and the fall of that regime. Look at the beating they gave a woman for shouting freedom, one thousand times freedom for the people of Cuba, freedom for all political prisoners, death to the dictatorship,” wrote her sister, the also opponent Marisol Peña Cobas, on her Facebook profile.
Peña shared some photos of his sister with a face visibly swollen from an alleged beating by the authorities.
On Saturday, Marisol reported the arrest of her sister Marianela by sharing some WhatsApp audios that documented the moment of the arrest.
In the audio, the sound of a loud pot banging can be heard along with his sister shouting in the midst of the protest: “5 days without power and 65 years of hunger and misery.”
“It’s the whole town, and they’re going to take me away”; “they’re going to take my phone,” you can hear him say in other audio recordings.
Protests in Havana
In the early hours of this Sunday, Havana experienced its second day of pot-banging and protests over the lack of electricity.
Videos and testimonies shared on social media show neighbors banging kitchen utensils and shouting slogans amidst the darkness caused by power outages. “This is over, damn...!”, was heard from one of the neighbors in Guanabacoa.
The journalist Mario J. Pentón reported on social media about a protest in the municipality of Regla, in Havana, where residents reportedly took to the streets to demonstrate after several days without electricity.
Other reports published on social media mention protests in Mulgoba, in the municipality of Boyeros. “In Mulgoba, the people also took to the streets with pots... it's the second day of protests in the capital,” wrote the activist Magdiel Jorge Castro on the social network X, who also shared a video that he attributed to a protest in the municipality of El Cotorro.
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