lunedì, luglio 13, 2009

UPDATED - Cuba: Dissidents Dr. Darsi Ferrer and wife arrested (and released)

UPDATED - Cuba: Dissidents Dr. Darsi Ferrer and wife arrested

*UPDATE: Dr. Ferrer and his wife were released after suffering brutal agression at the hands of Castro's thugs.

Read about their ordeal at The Real Cuba. Click here.


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The whereabouts of Cuban husband-and-wife human rights activists Dr. Darsi Ferrer and Yusnaymi Jorge Soca were unknown Friday, a day after they were arrested at their home in Havana, according to a report from independent journalist Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez. The arrests came a day before Ferrer had planned to lead a demonstration along the seafront Malecon in the capital.

"A soldier dressed in olive green and two officers from the National Revolutionary Police came in a patrol car to their house and told Darsi they were there to search the house, which he resisted. Minutes later, they took him with my sister," said Ferrer's brother-in-law..

More at Uncommon Sense here, and in Spanish at Mambí en Acción, here.