Police impedes progress Damas de Blanco. Director of the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba.
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Havana, April 26 .- Las Damas de Blanco, mothers, wives, aunts and other relatives of 75 Cuban dissidents jailed in the spring of 2003, were again victims of government repression of the island for the third time is not allowed to walk normally do on Sundays, after attending Mass in the Catholic Church of St. Rita of Cascia confirmed the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba.
Toledo Laura Pollan, Berta Soler Fernández, Julia Esther Núñez Pacheco, Asuncion Carrillo, Lois Valdez, and Maria Labrada Laura Pollan, were intercepted by two uniformed members of the National Revolutionary Police and an official of the State Security Department, when preparing to start the hike by the central Fifth Avenue in the neighborhood of Miramar, Playa municipality.
"The police told us we could not keep walking, because we had not asked permission." Valdez said Lois ..
For more than 7 hours the women were besieged by about 80 members of the government mobs in the park Gandhi, who led a notorious act of repudiation.
"We were shoving, we were insulted with profanity, led a spade, a pot with a spoon, powerful instruments played by noise in our ears." I emphasize Valdez. Foreign Press Correspondents accredited to Cuba gave coverage to the event.
This journalist was stopped at 200 meters away by security agents of the state and out of place under severe threat.
was confirmed that an undetermined number of women in Group Support Ladies in White were arrested, not allowing them to reach the church.
Toledo Laura Pollan, Berta Soler Fernández, Esther Julia Núñez Pacheco, Asuncion Carrillo, Lois Valdez, and Maria Labrada Laura Pollan, were forced by the State Security and the mob to board a bus and taken to the official home of the Ladies in White, in the neighborhood of Cayo Hueso, in Centro Habana municipality.
"to give us the legal document that says the restrictions have been issued against us. Las Damas de Blanco, we will continue our struggle, do not exclude that our blood is spilled in the streets, while there are political prisoners will Damas de Blanco asking for their freedom, which no doubt the government will fit. To us it encourages freedom and are prepared to pay whatever price is necessary. " Toledo Laura Pollan said.
Reporting from Havana, the journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira Director of the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba.