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FROM
CUBA
Ladies in White warned to be still during
Summit
Miriam Leiva
HAVANA, Cuba, September 12 (Miriam Leiva
/ www.cubanet.org) - Several of the Ladies
in White in Havana report they have been
visited by government representatives who
warned them not to stage any public activities
during the Summit of the Non-Aligned Nations
to meet this week in Havana.
Others in the group who live elsewhere
on the island said they had been enjoined
from traveling. One, Magaly Broche, who
lives in Camajuaní, said authorities
prevented her from traveling to neighboring
Remedios to visit a relative.
The Ladies in White is a group composed
mostly of the wives and mothers of political
prisoners jailed in the Spring of 2003 who
have been holding quiet demonstrations since
then.
The women, among them Berta Soler, Miriam
Leiva, Laura Pollán, and Julia Núñez,
said they were visited by three women who
said they were Communist Party members,
along with an executive of their local Committee
for the Defense of the Revolution who warned
them not to plan any public activities from
September 9 to September 18. That is two
days before the Summit is to start and two
days after it ends.
They said they would be allowed to walk
along restricted routes near the Summit
venues, but singly and not as a group. The
women said the officials referred them to
the guidelines published September 9 in
the official daily Granma, which basically
stipulated that the airport, Old Havana,
the Convention Center, the areas where hotels
are concentrated, and a number of major
thoroughfares are restricted areas in so
far as allowed activities are concerned.
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