Hundreds of Cubans are still detained after anti-government protests, human-rights groups say

Miami Herald via MSN ^ | 7/17/21 | Nora Gamez Torres

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Hundreds of dissidents, students, artists, journalists, priests and even children have been arrested in Cuba following islandwide anti-government protests that erupted Sunday and their violent aftermath.

Many remain incommunicado, according to family members and international organizations denouncing the arrests.

“My mother just called me crying,” said Arnaldo Falcon, whose brother, Ariel Gonzalez Falcon, 21, has been detained since Sunday and is currently being held in a prison in El Cotorro, on the outskirts of Havana.

“My parents have been in that disgusting prison since first thing in the morning, and now they have been told that they will hold him for four more days. They don’t want to tell them why or give them his case number,” he said.

Ariel Falcon, who is going to medical school, first posted a video of a Sunday demonstration in the iconic Malecón in Havana that went viral.

A Spanish-language list that has been shared on social media by the Cuban independent journalism outlet El Toque and other organizations includes details of 383 people arrested during the protests and the following days. Some have already been released.

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