More than 40 people on hunger strike to protest the violence of the Cuban regime

Currently, 44 activists of the Patriotic Union of Cuba have joined a hunger strike to protest the regime's violence, which attempts to prevent the population from manifesting its rejection by voting NO on the Castro system during of the constitutional referendum of 24 February. .

The new strikers are: Maydolis Oribe Perdomo, Moraima Diaz Perez, Idel Suarez Saiz, Adrian Ochoa Portales, Ruben Torres Saiz, Leonardo Perez Garcet, Dainieris Moya Garcia and Isidro García Rodriguez, mentioned in the program Radiografía de Constitución de Radio Martí Tomás Cardoso, Carlos Amel Oliva, Youth Officer of UNPACU in Santiago de Cuba.

Meanwhile, José Daniel Ferrer, general coordinator of UNPACU, said on Twitter today that it was possible for the repressive forces of Castro to once again make a raid against the siege of the city. UNPACU in Santiago de Cuba.

He confirmed that there were "more arrests of NO promoters to the Constitution and the regime"

In addition, the coordinator of UNPACU in Puerto Padre, Vladimir Martín Castellano, was arrested and beaten and could have a broken hip.

"Vladimir was arbitrarily arrested by political police officers because he promotes the NO and is a tireless defender of human rights," his brother Ovidio Martín told Cardoso.

According to neighbors, Ovidio added that his brother had been taken to the police unit "in a very violent manner" and pointed out that when his wife Ileana Marrero visited, a police captain had told him said that Vladimir had been wounded in the hip "that his hip was broken, because he had thrown himself against a wall", which Ovidio rejected.

"We clearly know that Vladimir is not a nervous person or crazy to throw himself against a wall, we all know that he was brutally beaten, that everything was done to try to silence him", added his brother.

All this coincides with the visit he made Friday to the municipality of Puerto Padre, in the province of Las Tunas, Governor Miguel Díaz-Canel. Since yesterday, repression against human rights defenders has intensified in the region.

Independent journalist Alberto Méndez Castelló said by phone that he is being detained at his home and that he can not go out until the end of the visit to the Diaz-Canel region.

(Written by Jorge P. Martínez, with information from Radio Martí)