Sara Martha Fonseca
Several Cuban activists, including the former political prisoner Sara Martha Fonseca, were arrested Monday afternoon, as part of a police crackdown on an anti-Castro rally to commemorate Orlando Zapata and Pedro Luis Boitel Civic Day of Resistance."
Fonseca and another activist, hip-hop singer Rodolfo Ramírez Cardoso, were approaching the site of the rally, Martin Luther King Jr. Park, when they were picked up police and taken to an unknown location, according to Diario De Cuba.
Fonseca in recent months has become one of the most forceful opponents of the Castro regime, leading high-profile protests at the University of Havana, the Old Capitol building and other locations -- each time getting arrested. Most recently, she and her husband, Julio Ignacio Leon, spent two weeks in jail after they were arrested near their home.
The possibility of arrest does not deter Fonseca, she said in a recent interview.
"(I)t seems then that we will continue to get arrested because we are not going to stop carrying out our activities," Fonseca said. "We are going to continue demanding the freedom of not only every single political prisoner but of the entire Cuban nation."
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UPDATED, Oct. 26, 2011 -- Sara Fonseca and others have been released, but not before they were interrogated, threatened, etc. and warned to halt their activities.
The planned demonstration was part of a series of protests, set for the 24th of each month, to demand among other things the release of political prisoners.
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