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CUBA
Dissidents suppressed on anniversary of
2003 arrests
HAVANA, March 21 (Roberto Santana Rodríguez
/ Shelyn Rojas / www.cubanet.org) - Homes
under siege, threats and arrests were the
order of the day as Cuban authorities tried
to prevent dissidents from commemorating
the third anniversary of the crackdown known
as the Black Spring.
Alejandrina García de la Riva, wife
of Diosdado González Marrero, one
of 75 dissidents ordered arrested March
18, 2003, said Ladies in White - a group
consisting of wives and mothers of prisoners
- were threatened by members of Rapid Response
Brigades and State Security.
Loida Valdés, wife of prisoner Alfredo
Felipe, said she was told by a group of
10 persons who visited her home in Havana
province that she should not travel to the
capital for commemorative ceremonies.
Lieut. Col. José Mariño of
the political police in Ciego de Ávila
took the identity documents of the wife
of prisoner Pablo Pacheco and Yolanda Vera,
wife of Pedro Argüelles, another prisoner.
Melba Hernández, wife of prisoner
Alfredo Domínguez, and Giselda Verdecia,
wife of prisoner Reinaldo Labrada, were
removed from a bus in Puerto Padre, Las
Tunas province, to prevent them from going
to the capital. Yaraí Reyes, wife
of prisoner Normando Hernández, was
harassed at a bus terminal in Camagüey.
Ada Rosa Borrego, mother prisoner Horacio
Piña, rejected an offer to have her
son brought from prison so that he could
spend the day with her and not go elsewhere
to protest.
Carmelo Díaz Fernández,
president of the Christian Union Movement
who is under house arrest after being released
from prison, couldn't leave his home for
13 hours as members of the Rapid Response
Brigades camped out downstairs.
Alexander Roberto Fernández Rico,
coordinator of the Neo Catholic Party, along
with fellow dissidents Miguel Alvarado,
Yunieski Puebla, Jorge Marrero and Gerardo
Lazcano, were detained in the home of another
dissident in La Palma and held overnight
at police headquarters. They were fined
30 pesos each.
Daisy Lázara Suárez Martínez,
a member of the Children of the Virgin of
Regla, and two other dissidents had their
identity documents seized in Regla. Later,
they were stopped by police and taken held
for several hours.
On March 17, several members of Commission
of Attention to Political and Prisoners
of Conscience were cited by State Security
agents in Havana.
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