Former Cuban political prisoner Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez" and six other anti-government activists were arrested in Havana on Sunday while commemorating the 37th anniversary of the death of political prisoner Pedro Luis Boitel.
The group, which also included Antúnez's wife, Iris Pérez Aguilera, held a ceremony at Colón Cemetery in Havana, followed by march down 23rd Street in Havana, where they were arrested.
CubaEncuentro.com reported that the whereabouts of the detainees was not available.
The other dissidents arrested were Blas Fortún, Marta Díaz, Juan Oriol Verdecia, Ernesto Medero and Carlos Cordero Pérez.
Boitel, a former student leader, was imprisoned in 1961. He started a hunger strike on April 3, 1972, and died of starvation 53 days later, on May 25, 1972.
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