Havana, April 19, 2010 - Agents of the State Security and pro-government mobs violently broke up a protest who regularly perform on Sunday the Ladies in White, after attending Mass at St. Rita Catholic Church Keziah, in the neighborhood of Miramar, Municipio Playa, on 18 April, confirmed the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba.
in four blocks around the said Church, the State Security rolled out a major operation, preventing access to the site of the support group members of the Damas de Blanco, Maritza Castro, Mercedes Frese, Barbara Conyedo, Odalis Sanabria Solomon Ismari Carcaces, Niurki Rivero Despaigne, Soila Hernandez, Yvonne Mayes Galano, Coca and Lilia Leydi Castañar.
Moreover, Laura Pollan Toledo, Bertha Soler Fernández, Julia Núñez Pacheco, Enilda Tanquero, Alejandrina García de la Riva, Anisley Puente, Loida Valdés, Noelia Laura Pedraza and Mary Labrada Pollan, able to reach the Catholic church, participating in the Mass, and then after starting, in the central 5th. Avenue, were intercepted by two agents of State Security, informing them that they could not continue the march, by not seeking permission for the demonstration.
"The mobs came out of the streets 26 and 28 respectively, they pushed us, tugging, and insulting, shouting obscenities against us," complained Bertha Soler Fernandez.
Laura Pollan, leader of the group said "they shouted wall, terrorists, we are rounding to feel the warmth of the revolutionaries. "
was confirmed for two hours, the women were harassed by the mob. "Diverting a public bus forcing us to enter the vehicle and we moved to our official headquarters in Central Havana, where they continued with the act of repudiation," he said Soler.
"The Cuban television journalist, Yoavani Noguet, with a film crew boarded the bus and we were harassed.
We will not ask permission to march, we have never known. While there are political prisoners in Cuba, Damas de Blanco have asked for their freedoms, "said Pollan.
Reporting from Havana, the journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira, head of the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba, and correspondent in Miscellaneous Island of Cuba.
Carlos Serpa Maceira 
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