About a dozen Cuban dissidents were arrested Monday and Tuesday in the city of Santa Clara, for showing support for a Cuban university student who has been harassed and threatened by Castroite thugs after she quit a communist student organization.
Some of those arrested were taken into custody after they went to a local police station to inquire about other dissidents who had been arrested earlier, according to a report posed by Cuban Democratic Directorate.
Among those arrested, detained and later released included Iris Tamara Perez Aguilera, head of the Rosa Parks Feminent Movement, and independent journalist Guillermo Fariñas.
Most of the detainees had been released, but as of Tuesday evening the whereabouts of five dissidents — Guillermo del Sol, Frank Reyes López, Carlos Barbier Obregón, Félix Reyes Gutiérrez and Celestino Hernández Gutiérrez — were not known, according to the Directorate.
The activists got in trouble for demonstrating their support for college Martha Bravo Perez, who has suffered "acts of repudiation" — marked by harassment, threats and name-calling — by government-backed mobs since she quit the Union of Young Communists (UJC).
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