The two dissidents were arrested on Sunday as they were preparing to win a church. They wanted by this gesture protest against the detention of the participants of the protest movement of July 11th.
Le Monde with AFP
Berta Soleer, leader of the Cuban dissenting movement Damascus of Blanco (the ladies in white), and his husband Angel Moya, were arrested on Sunday, February 13, coming out of their house, also the seat of the movement, a-T- We learned from their loved ones.
Nine other members of this organization have succeeded in entering churches, way for them to demonstrate in Cuba where any form of protest is repressed.
Marta Beatriz Roque, human rights activist and only woman imprisoned following the “black spring” of 2003, confirmed at the France-Presse agency the arrest of the two dissidents while they were preparing for Win a church of Havana.
M me soler and her husband, himself one of the 75 political prisoners arrested in 2003, wanted by this gesture to protest the detention of the participants of the protest of July 11 and in memory of The birth of Laura Pollan, another “lady in white” died in 2011. But, “for the first time nine ladies in white arrived in different churches”, during this new day of events, also said M Me Roque.
On January 23rd, M me soler and two other members of his movement had already been arrested while they were preparing to go to the church of Santa Rita in Havana, before ‘Be released a few hours later.
Judicial proceedings against minors
Many mothers and near protesters arrested after the demonstrations on the 11th of July have come closer to the dissenting movement of the ladies in white.
In the cries of “freedom” and “we are hungry”, thousands of people had shown on July 11 in nearly 50 Cuban cities. A person had been killed and dozens injured during these events. According to the government, at the end of January, 790 people, including 55 minors under the age of 18, had been charged and 172 other convicts.
The Embassy of the United States protested Sunday against these prosecution against minors. “Can a 16-year-old child understand what the concept of sedition means to be accused of?”, Questioned the embassy on his Twitter account.
The opposition is not legal in Cuba and the dissidents, frequently arrested for short periods of time, are considered by the communist regime as mercenaries on the balance of the United States.