Carlos Serpa Maceira Director of the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba.
Phone: 535 284 5392
Email: serpamaceira@yahoo.es
Havana, May 17 .- About 25 Damas de Blanco walked the downtown Fifth Avenue in Havana to draw the attention of their jailed relatives and other political prisoners, on Sunday May 16, confirm, visually the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba, giving news coverage to the event.
The women, before the march attended Mass in the church catalytic Santa Rita de Casia, and then marched under a hot sun on Fifth Avenue. At the back were cries of Freedom for political prisoners!, And Freedom! Front of the temple.
Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, the only woman in the group of 75 dissidents imprisoned in Spring 2003 on the island model, contact was in place this journalist.
Toledo Laura Pollan, leader of the group in an exclusive statement given to the Union of Free Journalists of Cuba said: "A representation of the Ladies in White held a meeting at the Archdiocese of Havana, on 16 May. There he argued that the participation of women in support is hampering the efforts between the Church and the Cuban government. We have raised with him the State Security and the Archbishop that if they want to be told to support women who can not come. But ever Laura Pollan, in this case, we will say to any woman who does not come. They are free to express and movement. Las Damas de Blanco we are very grateful to these women for the support they have given us for 7 years, this is our position, and so I have made known to Cardinal Jaime Ortega and Colonel Ernesto Samper, the State Security " .
Note: To accompany the photo report attached 3 pictures taken by this reporter. In the first picture is observed for the Ladies in White in the church Santa Rita de Cassia catalytic. The second picture shows the Ladies in White marking the 5th Avenue downtown. The third photograph shows Laura Pollan and Melba Santana leading the peaceful march.
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