More than 20 Cuban dissidents — including the journalist Guillermo Fariñas and former political prisoner Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez) — were arrested this week, apparently to prevent them from participating in events marking International Human Rights Day, according to Cuba Encuentro.
"The police operation is continuing," said Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz, president of the non-official Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
Nonetheless, Sánchez and other dissidents have vowed to go forth with planned events to commemorate today's 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As long as the Castro dictatorship is in power, however, rights outlined in the declaration are far less than universal.
Please remember in your thoughts and prayers today those Cubans struggling to change that for their nation.
Cuban Democratic Directorate has the names of other dissidents who have been detained.
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