Cuban Democratic Directorate has some disturbing news about the apparent disappearance of three opposition activists:
An urgent call to the international community, the diplomatic corps in Havana and the United States Congress has been issued by Cuban Resistance activist Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez" in defense of his wife and fellow activist Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, as well as two additional activists arrested in Havana when trying to ascertain the situation of Resistance leader Sara Marta Fonseca Quevedo who remains in detention and under threat of prosecution, along with her husband, Julio León Fonseca.
"My wife Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, leader of the Rosa Parks Women's Movement for Civil Rights was brutally beaten this September 26 in a nonviolent protest in the streets of the Havana municipality of Rio Verde. At noon yesterday (September 26) she was mysteriously removed from the police station of October 10 & Aguilera in the capital and her whereabouts are unknown. As this is taking place, political police officers have besieged my home. I fear for the life of my wife, beaten so many times and with serious health problems, " stated Antúnez by telephone to the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance on the evening of September 27, 2011. The Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Civic Resistance and Civil Disobedience Front also issued a statement concerning the whereabouts of Pérez Aguilera.
Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera was detained together with Donaida Pérez Paseiro, Yaimara Reyes Mesa, Mariblanca Avila Espósito, Julio (Julito, son of Sara Marta and Julio) León Fonseca, and other activists on Monday September 26 on their way to Section 21 of State Security in Havana to learn the status of resistance members arrested on September 24. Of those arrested on Monday, the whereabouts of Pérez Aguilera, Pérez Paseiro and Reyes Mesa, all of the Rosa Parks Women's Movement in central Cuba remain unknown.
"We came out and told them we were going to leave peacefully and that we would ask them to release Sara Marta because she was severely beaten. They (State Security agents) told us we would not be allowed to leave. When we left there they arrested us, Yris was thrown to the floor and hit her in the neck, split her mouth. They hit me on my backbone so that I still can not even walk,” said Mariblanca Avila Espósito after being taken from police headquarters and left on the outskirts of Havana.
On the night of September 27 it was learned that other women of the Ladies in White and of the Resistance were arrested when they went to Section 21 of State Security in Havana to request explanations about the act of aggression and repudiation against the Ladies in White on Saturday, September 24.
"The Ladies in White from the East of the country, Belkis Cantillo, Tania Montoya and Aymé Garcés were arrested on there way to the home of Marta Beatriz Roque and from there go to carry out a protest in front of Section 21, in Marianao, Havana. [...] Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello, Berta Soler and Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique went to demonstrate their solidarity with these Ladies and were themselves also victims of violence. Roque Cabello was hit hard," said José Daniel Ferrrer García, of the Patriotic Union of Cuba from the capital.
For more, including the names of other dissidents arrested during the recent wave of repression, go here and here.
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