The dissidents argue that the arrest of more than one hundred people and the immobilization at their hundred activists have prevented the planned mobilization on Monday.
Le Monde with AFP
Arrests, blockages of home activists … According to the Cuban opposition, the authorities of the country have carefully stifled the rally who had to stand on Monday to protest against power.
“Since the weekend, more than 100 people have been arbitrarily detained to prevent them from participating in the civic event,” said Tuesday, November 16, the Cuba Opposition platform decides in a statement Broadcast in particular on Twitter . It also lists 131 cases of militants blocked by the police.
The Communist Government responded to the call to demonstrate by an “extreme militarization of streets, more than one hundred activists blocked at home, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, deeds of repudiation, violence, threats, of hate constraint and speech “, also denounced the group Archipielago , at the origin of this call, in a declaration sent to the France-Press agency (AFP).
A demonstration prohibited by the authorities
The group, created on Facebook after the historic events of July 11, has 37,000 members in Cuba and abroad. He called to demonstrate Monday to request the release of political prisoners. The authorities had prohibited any gathering, considering that it was an attempt to change scheme with the support of Washington, and threatened the organizers of criminal penalties.
“Increased repression against citizens and peaceful protesters is not and will not be accepted,” says Tuesday’s statement, which calls for new shares until November 27, the anniversary date of the event of the event. About 300 artists for freedom of expression in 2020.
Archipielago encourages in particular to dress blank, wear white roses, realize individual videos and participate in a concert of pots every night to protest against the government. The Group has denounced that one of its coordinators, Daniela Rojo, is “sequestered by state security”, after being officially informed by an agent. In addition, “its accounts on social networks have been closed,” worried.
Anxiety
Monday, several dissent leaders were arrested including Manuel Cuesta Morua, Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Transition. He announced Tuesday to AFP to have been released: “They freed me to one hour of the morning,” he said, telling that he was arrested while he was coming out to demonstrate.
The leader of the ladies movement in white, Berta Soler, and his husband, the former political prisoner Angel Moya, also arrested, were released shortly after midnight, told AFP dissenting Martha Beatriz Roque who said that at least seven opponents remain detained.
The historian of art and activist Carolina Barrero, prevented from getting out of her home since 200 days, was also arrested, announced the 27N dissident movement, of which she is a member. She told AFP to have been released at the end of the afternoon. Another figure of the opposition, Guillermo Fariñas, has been in detention since Friday.