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Mob Brutally Repudiates
Blind Cuban Activist
Jim Meyers, NewsMax.com,
Sept. 12, 2005.
A blind human rights activist in Cuba says
he was the victim of an "act of repudiation"
by a mob organized by the communist government.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva was holding
a meeting of the Cuban Foundation of Human
Rights on September 1 at his home in the
city of Ciego de Avila when the attack came,
he disclosed in a telephone call after the
confrontation.
"Forces of State Security and the
Cuban Police used the provincial coordinator
of the Committees for the Defense of the
Revolution, Jose Manuel Benedico, to lead
a mob of between 200 and 400 people that
shouted obscenities and governmental slogans,"
he said.
"These people banged on our doors
and windows, and they made it apparent to
us that they were not going to permit activities
in the defense of human rights.
"They threatened us with death, saying
they were going to yank us out of the house
by our necks and they were going to pull
out our teeth.
"They tried to fumigate my house with
smoke, and threatened to turn off our water
and electricity. They prevented any food
from coming into my house. They even cut
off public phone connections so that the
act of repudiation would not be reported
abroad.
"Activists who left my house at 4:30
in the afternoon received insults. Others
were beaten up, like Lazaro Iglesias Estrada,
National Secretary of the Cuban Foundation
of Human Rights, and independent journalist
Osmel Sanchez Lopez.
"From August 6 to the present I have
suffered more than 15 acts of repression,
like arrests, detainments, fines, citations,
common court cases and acts of repudiation.
I am constantly monitored.
"The situation is very tense because
their objective is to pressure me into leaving
the country."
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