As recent events in Myanmar show, potential danger is everywhere when people tired of dictatorship hit the streets to air their protests and demand their freedom.
In Cuba, as reports show this week, the people are setting aside their fears.
On Sept. 20, in Banes in eastern Cuba, government opponents marched to the home of Reina Tamayo Rangel, to protest a recent beating suffered by her son, political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo. Along the way, the marchers — who were wearing shirts emblazoned with the word CAMBIO ("change") — demanded that the rights of all political prisoners be respected.
On Sunday, as they do every Sunday, the Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White), marched peacefully in Havana to demand the release of their imprisoned loved ones.
On Monday in Santa Clara, about 50 dissidents sat down in the middle of a street and protested the abuses and other poor conditions in Cuban prisons.
And in Holguín, also on Monday, about 10 members of the independent Holguín Press news agency marched to the local telephone office, and then to the police station, to complain about harassing telephone calls they had recently received.
The streets in Cuba are alive with protests and demands for freedom.
When will the world start to listen?
UPDATED, 11:31 p.m. EDT
Cuban Democratic Directorate has the news of another protest Monday, this one in Camagüey:
Human rights activists in Camagüey carried out a peaceful march 2 kilometers in length asking for the immediate release of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. The march, organized by the February 24th Movement, took place on September 24th, Day of Our Lady of Mercy, patron of prisoners. According to statements from Julio Romero Muñoz, from the Free Expression Solidarity Movement, around 10 members of dissident organizations participated in this march, which began at the Oncology Hospital in the city of Camagüey and ended at the Mercy Church. The activists, who carried anti-Castro posters during the activity, entered the church and there, they prayed for the prisoners who are in acute state of health, and for the freedom of all prisoners.
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