Six Ladies in White were arrested while protesting in Cuba
Cuban activists published on their social networks the events that occurred when the Ladies in White agents left their base camp in Havana, dressed in white and carrying flowers of the same color.
On Sunday, six Cuban women belonging to the Ladies in White were arrested. This action was carried out after they reported that they would continue with their Sunday activities to pray for the release of political detainees.
Among those captured was the head of the Ladies in White, Berta Soler, and the wife of detainee Ángel Juan Moya, who was the person who previously reported the arrests.
In addition, along with them, the mother of the minor Jonathan Farrat, Bárbara Farrat, was captured. Jonathan is in the preliminary stage for participating in the struggles of July 11 against the government.
Farrat has been dynamic in the networks, rebuking her son's circumstance and taking an interest in the activities with the assemblies that follow the legal cycles of the people who have joined the demonstrations for a long time on the island.
The group of specialists in law and Cuban writers for Democracy raised the number of Ladies in White deprived of liberty to six. Adding to the list Lourdes Esquivel Vieyto, Gladys Capote Roque, Asunción Carrillo Hernández and Caridad María Burunate Gómez.
In a critical appeal to the United Nations (UN) Committee on Enforced Disappearances, it was shown that, without a doubt, two different activists were held for a long time and later handed over. Some different cases were posted on social networks.
Cuban specialists did not report this, and neither did the media.
The Ladies in White declared on Friday that they were reactivating their Sunday fighting activities to request the arrival of political detainees.
Soler made a call on Facebook so that every Lady dressed in White, wherever she is, has the moral and political obligation to help the groups of political detainees, who represent the release of her loved one.
Soler and different agents of the Ladies in White had recently contested activities of pressure and terror that they attributed to the security powers of the State.
The Ladies in White emerged in 2003, following a wave of repression by the Cuban government called "Black Spring". After two years they won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament.
The European Union (EU) and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), such as Human Right Watch and Amnesty International, denounced the influx of arrests as political.
Cuban specialists censored them, assuring that they were an assault on public power by order of the United States.