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The leader of the ladies in white, Berta Soler Fernández, he was arrested violently this Friday afternoon while she was about to participate in Good Friday in Havanaand released two hours later as she said Radio Television Martí.
Soler explained the reasons for his challenge to the requirements of state security: "You have to leave, because if I have a threat and (Angel) Moya too, that from Thursday to Sunday, we can not leave, we will be arrested, and this threat is on the part of the Department of State Security … it is not a prison, there is no arrest warrant, there is no court order. "
After the arrest, Soler's husband, the former political prisoner Angel Moya, posted on his Facebook account several photos and a video of the arrest. Two women in uniform of the Revolutionary National Police and the Ministry of the Interior, take her by the arms and hold her. Soler falls to the ground and you can see how a powerful blow to the head occurs.
"The first thing that strikes (on the floor), it's my head, what I'm going through now, it hurts me, and they started dragging me", said the opposition.
Soler Fernández explained that they had taken her in a patrol vehicle to the police unit of the municipality of El Cotorro and had left her two hours inside a patrol car without being subjected to any questioning.
The Damascus Movement of Blanco was founded in 2003 as a result of the arrest of 75 dissidents in what is called the Black Spring of Cuba. women have been recognized with the Sakharov Prize to freedom of conscience in 2005 by the European Parliament.
Since March 20, 2016, in which the president of the time Barack Obama arrived in Havana, the political police and the forces of the Ministry of the Interior and rapid intervention brigades they prevent the group of women from attending mbad to pray for the freedom of political prisoners.
Until the moment, Five ladies in white stay in prisonfound guilty or awaiting trial for crimes ranging from alleged offenses of contempt, disorder, defamation and resistance to non-payment of arbitrary fines; they are: Yolanda Santana, Marta Sanchez, Xiomara of Mercedes Mercedes Miranda, Aimara Nieto Muñoz and Nieves Matamoros.
With information from Radio Television Marti
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