Cuba: Thugs Beat Pregnant Pro-Democracy Dissident ‘in the Belly,’ Put Father in the Hospital

An unidentified mob attacked two members of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) – a pregnant teen and her activist father – on Sunday night, hurling bottles at them and reportedly punching the woman in the belly. The activists in question are 52-year-old Ángel López Figueroa and his 18-year-old daughter Ariadna López Sotolongo, who is six months pregnant. According to Sotolongo’s father-in-law, who spoke to the Miami-based Martí Noticias, a mob formed outside the family home in Havana on Sunday night and began attempting to break into the house. -- More...