Dissidents are Assaulted by Government Agents
this story comes from a writer in Cuba. it was translated from the Cubanet site.
MATANZAS, Cuba - 22 August, 2006
by Oscar Sanchez Madan
On the morning of August 20, combined forces of the Department of State Security, the National Police, and the paramilitary Rapid Response Brigades, violently opposed activists of the Independent Movement for an Alternative Option (MIOA in Spanish). The activists were gathered for a vigil during which the dissidents would demand that the Castro dictatorship immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners . . .
Approximately 40 government agents ... with various motorcycles, cars, and trucks, blocked access to the event. Through loudspeakers, the agents broadcast loud music, insults, and threats to the 10 activists who had arrived prior to the blockade.
"We have thousands of armed men mobilized, who are willing to shoot you all down," was repeatedly broadcast, as well as insults of "traitors" and "mercenaries."
Various neighbors shouted "bullies" to the government agents, just as the paramilitaries were arresting a member of the governing board of the MIOA, Jose Antonio Perez Morell, as he attempted to cross the barricade to join the other activists inside.
A short while later, approximately 12 paramilitaries surrounded activists Yoany Junco Sardinas and Yovany Junco Sardinas and pushed them against a police jeep. Shortly thereafter, they were arrested and driven away.
Dissident Ulises Sigler Gonzalez was assaulted by the same group, and was struck repeatedly on the face and agents threatened to lynch him. Four family members and several neighbors intervened and stopped the beating. Sigler Gonzales was then arrested by two uniformed agents, who handcuffed him and took him to police headquarters.
MATANZAS, Cuba - 22 August, 2006
by Oscar Sanchez Madan
On the morning of August 20, combined forces of the Department of State Security, the National Police, and the paramilitary Rapid Response Brigades, violently opposed activists of the Independent Movement for an Alternative Option (MIOA in Spanish). The activists were gathered for a vigil during which the dissidents would demand that the Castro dictatorship immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners . . .
Approximately 40 government agents ... with various motorcycles, cars, and trucks, blocked access to the event. Through loudspeakers, the agents broadcast loud music, insults, and threats to the 10 activists who had arrived prior to the blockade.
"We have thousands of armed men mobilized, who are willing to shoot you all down," was repeatedly broadcast, as well as insults of "traitors" and "mercenaries."
Various neighbors shouted "bullies" to the government agents, just as the paramilitaries were arresting a member of the governing board of the MIOA, Jose Antonio Perez Morell, as he attempted to cross the barricade to join the other activists inside.
A short while later, approximately 12 paramilitaries surrounded activists Yoany Junco Sardinas and Yovany Junco Sardinas and pushed them against a police jeep. Shortly thereafter, they were arrested and driven away.
Dissident Ulises Sigler Gonzalez was assaulted by the same group, and was struck repeatedly on the face and agents threatened to lynch him. Four family members and several neighbors intervened and stopped the beating. Sigler Gonzales was then arrested by two uniformed agents, who handcuffed him and took him to police headquarters.
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