Another Sunday of Beatings for the Ladies in White

Another Sunday of Beatings for the Ladies in White
14YMEDIO, Havana | Julio 06, 2015

Ladies in White, opposition, Repression, Antonio Rodiles
The project director of the independent Estado of Sats project, Antonio
Rodiles, underwent emergency surgery Sunday for a nasal bone fracture
after being detained and beaten by security forces in Havana while
participating in the weekly march of the Ladies in White. Opposition
sources reported that about 80 members of that organization and human
rights activists were arrested, sometimes violently.

The regime opponent Martha Beatriz Roque reported through her Twitter
account of the arrest of Rodiles on 42nd street and 3rd Avenue in
Miramar, adding that he was, "Beaten until his nasal septum, forehead,
finger and foot were all broken," and taken to the hospital Calixto
García for emergency surgery. He was then transferred to the prison
known as Vivac, where he remained until 6.30 pm.

At least 20 people were arrested before reaching Santa Rita Church,
including Rodiles, photographer Claudio Fuentes and dissident Jose Diaz
Silva.

About 60 Ladies in White managed to reach the church and march down
Fifth Avenue, before being arrested with their leader, Berta Soler. A
reporter for this paper, Boris Gonzalez Arenas, was also arrested later,
as were former political prisoners Egberto Escobedo and Angel Moya,
according to activist Ailer González's Twitter account.

Security agents also conducted operations in Aguada de
Pasajeros in Cienfuegos, where the pastor restricted the Ladies in White
from attending Sunday Mass.

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