Director of the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba.
Phone: 535 284 5392
Email: serpamaceira@yahoo.es
Havana, March 22 .- About 54 Damas de Blanco, staged a peaceful demonstration opposite the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba (parliament) demanding release of political prisoners, on 21 March, which closed the day by the 7th anniversary of the Black Spring of 2003.
Amid a strong act of repudiation of some 200 supporters of the Castro regime, which rebuked chanting slogans such as "Pin Pon the worms go down this street Fidel is "and insults, ranking of mercenaries. Even Reyna Tamayo Danger, mother of the martyr View user Zapata Tamayo yelled that her son was quite dead, implying that Zapata's death was a deserved death. "Meanwhile, the Ladies in White carrying gladioli were present in Parliament chanting cries of Liberty.
During the journey, the heroic women were escorted by cords formed by combined forces of the Ministry of Interior. As diplomats from the United States, Poland, Sweden, Germany and Czech Republic, found in the streets watched as the mob did their traditional act of repudiation against these peaceful women.
from 15 to 21 March, Damas de Blanco attended Catholic Masses in churches officiated and conducted protest marches in the streets of Havana. For that reason they were beaten by government forces in the neighborhood of Parraga, in the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo. Also this journalist while covering the march was beaten, receiving a wound in the back of the neck and broke his camera.
Las Damas de Blanco, during the Workshop, held a peaceful march to the ruling Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPCE), which accused the Official Press complicit in human rights violations incurred by the regime.
The day was an opportunity to remember to Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a prisoner of conscience, who died Feb. 23, after staging a hunger strike for 85 days in rebellion against the communist government and prayed for the life of journalist Guillermo Farinas on hunger strike now.
Note: To accompany the photo report attached 13 photos taken by this reporter. The first look at Damas de Blanco injured by the beatings by security forces in Párraga. The second photo shows the wound in the back of the neck of journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira. The third picture shows the Ladies in White protest by in the Union of Journalists of Cuba. The fourth photo shows parents of Orlando Zapata, victims of abuse by paramilitary mobs in the streets of Havana. The fifth photo shows the Damas de Blanco, march through Avenida Los Presidents. The 6th photo shows White ladies marching through the streets of Central Havana. The 7th photo shows the Damas de Blanco Zapata Vive shouting in the Causeway Hospital Carlos III. The 8th picture samples of the Ladies in White march through the streets of Parraga, amid the protest campaign of paramilitary mobs. The 9th photo shows Reyna Luisa Tamayo Danger, Orlando Zapata and mother of Laura Pollan, leading the protest march in the streets of Párraga In the middle of the act of repudiation. The 10th photo shows the Damas de Blanco, marching through the central Calle 23 in Havana, as they are victims of an act of repudiation. The photo shows 11 members of the paramilitary mobs protest campaign against the Ladies in White, in the center of this photo shows former prisoner [political opponent Hugo Damián Prieto Blanco, who wears a black sweater and holding a gladiolus his hand, showing their solidarity with the Damas de Blanco, being beaten and arrested. The photograph shows 12 paramilitary mobs through the act of insulting repudiation White ladies Berta Soler and Julia Núñez Castillo Neris. The 13 photo shows the Damas de Blanco, marching in front the Ministry of Basic Industry.
The 10th photo shows the Damas de Blanco protest march through the streets of Havana.
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