Berta Soler, the leader of the Cuban Damas De Blanco, was released from jail early Monday morning, but not before the Castro dictatorship warned her and other Damas to stay away from events in Havana and Santiago when Pope Benedict XVI visits the island next week.
It will take a lot more than that to stop Soler, who along with several dozen other Damas were arrested during a weekend crackdown by the Castro police.
"They warned us that the space they had given us on Quinta Avenida was going to end, that we were not going to be able to go to (the church) any more," Soler said. "That is something we are not going to respect, because it is our right ... nobody can take that away."
Meanwhile, Soler said the whereabouts of her husband, the former prisoner of conscience Angel Moya Acosta, who also was arrested, remained unknown.
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