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To the attention of the International Community.
11 Ladies in White in prison
The Cuban dictatorship has unleashed a meticulous and
brutal campaign against the Ladies in White that has imprisoned four members of
that organization between the months of March and July and has imprisoned
eleven women in the last three years.
The government condemned this week, to a year in prison with
internment to the Lady in White Yolanda Santana, accused of non-payment of
fines, a mechanism used by the Department of State Security to arrest women.
Mrs. Santana had a trial without lawyers in a courtroom taken by the political
police.
Also imprisoned in a Havana jail accused of contempt and
disobedience awaiting trial is Mrs. Marta Sánchez Gonzales, as well as I Nieves
Caridad Matamoros González, who was sentenced to one year and six months in
prison for the same offense of unpaid fines. She is being held in the
provincial prison of El Guatao. Aymara Nieto Muñoz, arrested with a beating
that required medical help, is in the same jail waiting for a trial.
There are also three ladies threatened by the State Security
Department to be imprison Yamile Bargés, Gladys Capote and Micaela Roll
The repressors purpose with this campaign of harassment is
the disappearance of the Ladies in White Movement.
The new president of the Cuban government does not seem to
intend to direct his government towards respect for human rights and freedoms
in Cuba, quite the contrary. The direct aggression against Damas de Blanca with
total impunity proves it.
In spite of all this, the Ladies in White will continue to
promote the Human Rights Declaration, demanding the release of political
prisoners and peacefully defending the inalienable rights of all Cubans.
Berta Soler Fernández
Ladies in White
Havana, July 2018
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