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Whereabouts of opposition leader Yris Pérez Aguilera and other detained activists unknown
By Assembly of the Resistance

National Front issues call to international community. Sara Marta Fonseca Quevedo remains under arrest. A summary of arrests as of the moment.

Cuba. September 28, 2011. Assembly of the Cuban Resistance. An urgent call to the international community, the diplomatic corps in Havana and the United States Congress has been issued by Cuban Resistance activist Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez" in defense of his wife and fellow activist Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, as well as two additional activists arrested in Havana when trying to ascertain the situation of Resistance leader Sara Marta Fonseca Quevedo who remains in detention and under threat of prosecution, along with her husband, Julio León Fonseca.

"My wife Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, leader of the Rosa Parks Women's Movement for Civil Rights was brutally beaten this September 26 in a nonviolent protest in the streets of the Havana municipality of Rio Verde. At noon yesterday (September 26) she was mysteriously removed from the police station of October 10 & Aguilera in the capital and her whereabouts are unknown. As this is taking place, political police officers have besieged my home. I fear for the life of my wife, beaten so many times and with serious health problems, " stated Antúnez by telephone to the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance on the evening of September 27, 2011. The Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Civic Resistance and Civil Disobedience Front also issued a statement concerning the whereabouts of Pérez Aguilera.

Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera was detained together with Donaida Pérez Paseiro, Yaimara Reyes Mesa, Mariblanca Avila Espósito, Julio (Julito, son of Sara Marta and Julio) León Fonseca,  and other activists on Monday September 26  on their way to Section 21 of State Security in Havana to learn the status of resistance members arrested on September 24. Of those arrested on Monday, the whereabouts of Pérez Aguilera, Pérez Paseiro and Reyes Mesa, all of the Rosa Parks Women's Movement in central Cuba remain unknown.

 

"We came out and told them we were going to leave peacefully and that we would ask them to release Sara Marta because she was severely beaten. They (State Security agents) told us we would not be allowed to leave. When we left there they arrested us, Yris was thrown to the floor and hit her in the neck, split her mouth. They hit me on my backbone so that I still can not even walk,” said Mariblanca Avila Espósito after being taken from police headquarters and left on the outskirts of Havana.

 

On the night of September 27 it was learned that other women of the Ladies in White and of the Resistance were arrested when they went to Section 21 of State Security in Havana to request explanations about the act of aggression and repudiation against the Ladies in White on Saturday, September 24.

 

"The Ladies in White from the East of the country, Belkis Cantillo, Tania Montoya and Aymé Garcés were arrested on there way to the home of Marta Beatriz Roque and from there go to carry out a protest in front of Section 21, in Marianao, Havana. [...] Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello, Berta Soler and Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique went to demonstrate their solidarity with these Ladies and were themselves also victims of violence. Roque Cabello was hit hard," said José Daniel Ferrrer García, of the Patriotic Union of Cuba from the capital.

 

Summary of arrests in recent days in Cuba (including in bold the names of the members of the Resistance who are still detained.)

 

September 24, 2011

 

Havana Sara Marta Fonseca Quevedo; Julio León Pérez- Partido Pro Derechos Humanos Afiliado a la Fundación Andrei Sajarov.Jorge Luis García Pérez Antúnez- Movimiento Presidio Político Pedro Luis BoitelEriberto Liranza Romero- Movimiento Cubano de Jóvenes por la DemocraciaHermógenes Guerrero Gómez- Frente de Línea DuraRamsés Miranda Camejo- Partido Pro Derechos Humanos Afiliado a la FASALL are of the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Civic Resistance and Civil Disobedience.

 

September 25, 2011

City of Havana

 

Raúl Borges Serrano, Unidad Democrática Cristiana.

 

September 26, 2011

City of Havana

 

Yris Pérez Aguilera, Donaida Pérez Paseiro, Yaimara Reyes Mesa, Rosa Parks Women's Movement for Civil Rights.

René Ramón González Bonelli, Juan Wilfredo Soto García Movement

Rodolfo Ramírez Cardoso, father of El Primario

Yoani García Martínez, Human Rights Party Affiliated to ASF

Rodolfo Ramírez Hernández “El Primario”- Rapper from the group Julito y El Primario

René Rouco Machín, Juan Wilfredo Soto García Movement.

 

September 27,  2011

City of Havana.

 

Mayra Morejón, Rosario Morales La Rosa, Ivonne Mayesa Galano, Christian Democratic Unity.

 

Belkis Cantillo, Tania Montoya and Aymé Garcés, of the Ladies in White in Eastern Cuba.

Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello

Berta Soler Fernández, Ladies in White in Havana

Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique, former political prisoner.

 

Santa Clara, to attend trial of Daylín Hernández Caballero and Pedro Antonio Blanco Fleitas.

 

Idania Yánez Conteras, Damaris Moya Portielles, Alcides Rivera, Justo Luis Alfonso, Ramón Arboláes, Alberto Reyes, Michel Oliva, Alexei Sotolongo, Omar Núñez, Olga Lidia Barroso, Yoel Fonseca, María del Carmen Martínez, Frank Reyes López, Pablo González, Jorge Luis Oliver, the last of these of the Antitotalitarian Forum.

 

Yanisbel Valido Pérez, Daylín y Junior Hernández Caballero y Pedro Antonio, Marta y Raimundo Blanco Fleitas.

All of the Central Opposition Coalition and the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Civic Resistance and Civil Disobedience Front.

 

Hours later, checking on those arrested earlier:

Guillermo Fariñas Hernández, Lisset Zamora Carrandi, Carlos Baluet Obregón, Yazmín Conllevo Riverón, Yusmaris Alvarez Esmoris, José Ascencio López, Esequiel Enrique López, Héctor Bermúdez Santana, Jesús Hernández Pérez, José Alberto Botel Cárdenas, Jorge Luis Artiles Montiel, and Javier Sol Díaz. All of the Antitotalitarian Forum.

 

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