On Wednesday, please remember in your prayers Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, the wife of former political prisoner Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez."
Perez, 38, is set to stand trial on a charge of "contempt of the proper authorities," arising from an Aug. 6 incident during which she tried to block Cuban police officers from beating a young Cuban named Melquíades Hernández in Placetas, in Villa Clara province. According to a statement her husband gave the Cuban Democratic Directorate, "officers flung her against a police vehicle calling her a 'f------ black,' a 'black monkey' and later telling her that what they needed was 'an order to kill all these f------ blacks who stick their noses into everything.'"
Fuck the police, indeed.
Say what you want about the Castro dictatorship but to call it a gang of misogynistic and racist fucks, from the Castro brothers on down, would be unfair to misogynistic, racist fucks elsewhere.
It is a special kind of evil that those thugs showed Iris Perez. The only proper response is our solidarity with this brave woman and her family, and our continued vigilance in exposing and denouncing the criminal Castro regime.
The authorities attempted to fine Perez 500 pesos — about two months salary — but instead, she went on a hunger strike for more than 10 days. She has since called off the protest so as to gather strength for her trial.
(Cross-posted at Babalú.)
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