One of the more disturbing details about the rumors that Fidel Castro has had it, is speculation that little brother Raúl will coordinate a death announcement with a mass arrest of Cuban dissidents. He might already be taking the strategy on a test run.
Cuban lawyer Juan Carlos González Leyva, president of the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights, was assaulted and briefly detained by police on Sunday, according to Encuentro en la Red.
González, who is blind; independent journalist Luis Esteban Espinosa; and activist Eisy Marrero, were detained while trying to film an interview with the son of political prisoner José Antonio Mola Porro, who suffers from a congenital defect and is a patient at a hospital in Camagüey. To prevent the interview, hospital officials locked them in a room and called police.
Six officers threw González to the ground, and beat him about the head when he refused to get into a police car.
González, Espinosa and Marrero were held for three hours, before being released.
"This is part of the escalating repression over the past several weeks," journalist Luis Felipe Rojas told Encuentro en la Red.
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