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Cuban Resistance Leader Antunez Missing After Arbitrary Arrest
By Cuban Democratic Directorate

Placetas, CUBA. June 11th 2012. Cuban Democratic Directorate. The Cuban Resistance leader Jorge Luis Garcia Perez “Antunez”, who was violently arrested on June 9th along with two other members of the Resistance, has been declared missing. Antunez was transferred out of the Police Unit and headquarter of State Security to an unknown location at around 7 pm of the same day, according to his wife Yris Perez Aguilera. “My name is Yris Tamara Perez Aguilera, wife of former political prisoner Jorge Luis Garcia Perez Antunez. This Saturday, June 9th, my husband, Loreto Hernandez Garcia and Jonniel Rodriguez Riverol were taken to the police unit of Placetas after a brutal beating at the hands of the political police. All of this occurred at around 3:30 pm. After this, at around 4 pm, Yaite Cruz Sosa, Dora Perez Correa, Arturo Conde Zamora and I decided to head out to said police unit. After walking just one block from my home, the police intercepted and arrested us. I was once again beaten by agent Isachi under the orders of State Security agent and Chief of Confrontation in Placetas, better known as ‘Cabo Pantera’. They handcuffed me and took me to the police unit”, explained Perez Aguilera, who was released during the afternoon of Sunday, June 10th 2012. The wife of Antunez narrated how she was aggressively beaten in the head once in the police unit. Upon hearing this, her husband and the other detainees- among them common prisoners- began to shout in protest. It was at this moment in which a group of prison guards presented themselves in the cell where Antunez was being held and began to attack him with pepper spray, leaving him unconscious on the floor. Afterwards, Yaite Cruz Sosa, who was in the same cell as Antunez, managed to pour some water on his face and was able to bring him back to consciousness. “At around 7 pm, my husband shouted at me from his cell- ‘Yris, they are taking me out of here’. I couldn’t even speak because I had so much pain in my head as a result of the beating I had been subjected to. He kept saying: ‘I was head-locked by the Special Brigade and they are going to take me out of the cell and into the bus, but I do not know where they are taking me’. I am very worried about what could happen to my husband. He has a heart conditions and the pepper spray is a toxic substance, which could worsen this ailment. My husband has an auricular and ventricular blockage and I fear for his life. At present, my husband is missing since his whereabouts are unknown. I am holding the government responsible for what could happen to him. I know that all of this is in reprisal because he participated in the ‘Path to Freedom Forum’”, she affirmed. Jorge Luis Garcia Perez Antunez testified this past Thursday, June 7th 2012, before the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate- via the US Interested Section in Havana- about the reality of the Resistance in Cuba. ###

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