More Than 100 arrested in Havana and Oriente

More Than 100 arrested in Havana and Oriente / 14ymedio
Posted on November 1, 2015

14ymedio bigger14ymedio, Havana, 1 November 2015 – This Sunday was
marked throughout the country by dozens of arrests, particularly against
members of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) and the Ladies in White.
The arrests began in the early hours in the Oriente (in eastern Cuba),
where 91 activists were intercepted trying to reach the sanctuary of El
Cobre.

The leader of the UNPACU, Jose Daniel Ferrer, was arrested along with 36
other dissidents of his organization at the checkpoint known as the
Pajuin, on the outskirts of the Santiago capital to prevent them from
reaching the church dedicated to the patron saint of Cuba. Hours later
this newspaper was able to confirm that all those arrested had been
released.

We have gone "without hiding ourselves," said Ferrar to 14ymedio. The
former prisoner of the 2003 Black Spring said that "in the five eastern
provinces a total of 91 people were detained, all members UNPACU."

In Havana, about 51 Ladies in White and 29 other activists managed to
gather outside Santa Rita parish, before undertaking their traditional
Sunday march down Fifth Avenue. Then, opponents gathered at Gandhi park
to take stock of the week.

After the meeting and as they headed toward Third Street, a police
operation was waiting for the activists who were arrested and taken to
detention centers outside the capital. They were then being released.

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