Posted on 07/31/2021 10:52:19 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Miriela Cruz, a Cuban woman arrested on July 11 for wearing a shirt reading “down with the dictatorship,” described being brutalized and tortured in putrid jail cells in an interview shortly after her release, the Cuban independent site ADN Cuba reported Wednesday.
Cruz shared her story in audio posted to Facebook on Tuesday by Anamely Ramos, a longtime anti-communist dissident and member of the pro-democracy artist collective the San Isidro Movement. The head of the movement, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, disappeared on July 11 and has not been seen since. Human rights activists presume Otero is in police custody, one of hundreds confirmed to be imprisoned or disappeared since that date.
Thousands of Cubans took the streets of nearly every major city in the country — as many as 40 municipalities, according to some estimates — for protests against the Communist Party on July 11. The protests were overwhelmingly peaceful, largely consisting of assemblies of moving marches through major streets and chants of “freedom!” Police responded by opening fire with live ammunition into armed crowds, publicly beating protesters they could apprehend, and imprisoning and torturing anyone within sight of a protest, including minors.
Cruz’s son, 26-year-old Dayron Fanego, was arrested during the protests in San José de las Lajas, a Havana metropolitan area suburb. Police arrived at Fanego’s home and dragged him off of his own doorstep. As in many similar cases, Cruz said that police refused to give her information on her son, so she decided to wear an anti-communist shirt to the local police station. Her shirt featured several anti-regime slogans including “down with the dictatorship,” “no more hunger,” and “no more repression.”
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In Cuba, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Coming here soon. Well, actually, it is here.
The paradise of AOC and many other of our elected officials.
Let that sink in for a moment. She got arrested for wearing a T-shirt with a slogan that the regime did not agree with. Socialism/communism is such a beautiful thing.
Sounds just like the Capitol Police in January.
MCGA?
Well, this administration and Castro’s are practically kissing cousins.
And the US Coast guard under Biden just intercepted and sent 27 Cubans back to the security forces in Cuba. What has happened to them?
I’m on board with that.
Let that sink in for a moment. She got arrested for wearing a T-shirt with a slogan that the regime did not agree with. Socialism/communism is such a beautiful thing.Even more puzzling is Facebook allowed her story to be posted.
“Even more puzzling is Facebook allowed her story to be posted”
Its not puzzling if you consider it a subtle warning.
I'm ashamed of myself for not seeing that.
Read Armando Valladares’s book “Against All Hope” many decades ago - one of the most striking things in it was how bestial the political prisons in Cuba were (think gulags or concentration camps). A half-century later and those sorry folks are still dealing with the same horrors.
How did she get the shirt made?
I had to read the article a bit to determine if this was in the US or Cuba.
No worries.....that’s why its subtle.
☺
“How did she get the shirt made?”
Amazon? The jungle not the website.
"The most dangerous creation of any society is that man( OR WOMAN) who has nothing to lose".
James Baldwin
Well this will make Putin smile.
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