The Damas De Blanco, or "Ladies In White," may be Cuba's best known opposition group, publicly and consistently demonstrating for the dictatorship to release their imprisoned loved ones.
So how does the dictatorship respond - beyond, of course, refusing to release their imprisoned loved ones?
Ladies in White attacked after Mass in PericoHAVANA, Cuba, April 30 (Miriam Leiva, www.cubanet.org) – Three members of the dissident Ladies in White were attacked by police and private citizens following Sunday’s Mass in Perico, Matanzas province, according to one of them, Alejandrina García de la Riva.
García de la Riva, wife of political prisoner Diosdado Marrero, said she was accompanied by two other relatives of dissidents imprisoned in 2003, Saili Navarro, daughter of Félix Navarro, and Noelia Pedraza, wife of Ariel Sigler Amaya, Damas de Blanco, as well as friends.
She said after Mass in the Perico’s church she and the others were walking through the town’s streets carrying flowers when attacked by a crowd she said was organized by State Security agents, members of the political police and the national police. She said they were pushed and insulted before being able to board a bus at the bus terminal.
She said other Ladies in White in Pedro Betancourt were prevented by police from joining them in Perico.
For more on how this wasn't just an isolated incident, read this.
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