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Increasing repression throughout Cuba as regime tries to disguise its international image Cuba, April 28, 2014. Cuban Democratic Directorate. Physical assaults, death threats, raids on homes, arrests and arbitrary trials suspended and sanctions to prison for human rights defenders is the balance of last week in "I want to denounce Castro’s regime has filled our people with mourning and misery. I have been threatened with death three times by Gaston, Michelle and Ransel, all State Security police officers. On April 19, 2014 they tried to penetrate here in my house and ripped off the antenna from a pipe one inch wide and tried to stab me with that pipe. At that time uniformed police was here along with other criminals in civilian clothes", denounced José Díaz Silva who heads Opponents for a New Republic Movement from his home besieged by repressive forces in Boyeros, "[...] But today situation worsens because my brother tried to pass us food and they prohibited it telling him that no food would be allowed here to my house. We want to accuse the communist regime of the Castro brothers and all the thugs and bullies they direct that what happens to us is their responsibility, "said Diaz Silva.
Beatings and attacks: On the other hand, several human rights defenders have been beaten this week. The ADO activist Adrián Leiva Cruz was the victim of an attack on April 21, 2014 when he was riding his bicycle on a public street, suffering multiple bruises; in Baracoa, Guantanamo April 22, 2014 John Paul II Movement leader Francisco Luis Manzanet Ortiz was attacked by State Security agent Oneidis Guilarte Sotolongo who was intoxicated when he attacked the activist; in Havana on April 23, 2014 Lázaro García Mendoza of the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Civic Action Front , was beaten by agents of the political police to prevent him taking part in opposition activities; in the City of Sibanicú, province of Camaguey, on April 22, 2014 Cuban Christian Democratic Party activist Yordan Marrero Huertas was violently beaten, during an arbitrary arrest and interrogation by the political police against him where he also received a death threat. Also attacked was the leader of that organization in Havana on April 18, 2014, María Valdés Rosado when an officer dressed in civilian clothes hit her with a a motorcycle Arbitrary arrests: On April 23 Jorge Luis Garcia Perez “Antúnez” leader of the National Front for Civic Resistance Orlando Zapata Tamayo, and Julián Martínez Báez, of the Human Rights Party Affiliated with the Andrei Sakharov Foundation were arbitrarily detained in the city Catalina de Guines, province of Mayabeque; were released and expelled from the town hours later. The same 23rd activist of the Independent Alternative Option Movement Mercedes López Suárez was detained, in the town Jaguey Grande, ### Send by E-mail | Printable Version
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