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Independent Journalist and Youth Activist Violently Arrested after National Civic Resistance Front Meeting
By Cuban Democratic Directorate

Eriberto Liranza Romero.

Eriberto Liranza Romero.

City of Havana. October 28, 2010. Cuban Democratic Directorate. A group of activists from the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Civic Resistance and Civil Disobedience Front held a meeting in the Párraga Municipality of the City of Havana to restructure the organization, which coordinates nonviolent resistance actions on a national level. Upon walking out to the street, they noticed officers from the Castro regime's political police and Rapid Response Brigades surrounding the household, in preparation for a repudiation rally. The activists then began to shout anti-dictatorship and pro-freedom slogans, and sang the national anthem.


Agent Juan had the audacity to enter the household and we began to shout anti-Castro slogans, and he ran off due to our shouts for freedom and democracy. At that time, a group of opposition activists from different organizations were meeting in Havana,” stated Eriberto Liranza Romero, from the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy, and one of the coordinators of the Front in the City of Havana.


According to a later statement made his wife Yaimí Alfonso Lirea during a telephone conversation with the Cuban Democratic Directorate, the activists were attacked by political police around 5:30 PM, and Liranza was violently arrested.


Some of the activists in attendance at the meeting were: Rafael Hernández Fajardo from the Hard Line Front, Niola Camila Araujo from the Cuban Civic Foundation, Ermógenes Inocencio Guerrero Gómez and Boris Rodríguez Jiménez Frente from the Hard Line Front and the Frank País 30th of November Democratic Party, Eriberto Liranza Romero and Raúl Parada Ramírez from the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy, Modesto Leopoldo Valdivia Varela from the Unity and Liberty Cuban Movement for Human Rights, Ernesto Herrero Viel from the Independent Union of Light Industrial Workers affiliated with the National Independent Workers Confederation ofCuba/Confederación Obrera Nacional Independiente de Cuba (CONIC), Eli Hernández Rodríguez of the País 30th of November Democratic Party and Benito Aguirre De la Cruz of the Marti Civic League.


The activists stated that they were supported by the residents of Párraga while the police attacked the household, placing themselves between activist Eriberto Liranza Romero and an aggressor from the Rapid Response Brigade known as Michel who was holding a machete, in order to protect the activist. According to Yaimí Alfonso, the neighbors also helped to remove the children who were inside the household to protect them from the attacks.


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