Cuban state police violently arrested nearly seventy dissidents, most members of the Ladies in White movement, on their way to attend Catholic Mass on Sunday in what has become a weekly ritual for the oppressive communist state.
According to Lady in White Aliuska Gómez, only nine of the dozens of women across the country trying to practice their religion managed to reach their local churches. In Havana, Gómez told reporters (English translation by Babalú Blog here), over seventeen members of the group were violently arrested. Twelve women were swept off the streets in neighboring Matanzas province and nine others in eastern Santiago de Cuba. Gómez estimated that another thirty anti-communist dissidents were arrested attempting to join in the Ladies in White weekly silent march to church. -- More...
