In Cuba, most opposition rallies fail. About because the police and security services through arrests abort "preventive" and concentrations occurred yesterday convened to mark the first anniversary of the death of prisoner Orlando Zapata after 85 days on hunger strike. Other protests fail due to connection problems, not only physically, between the various opposition groups and between them and the society is what happened on Monday launched a call from Facebook.
The cemetery where the remains of Orlando Zapata, in the town of Banes (Holguín) woke up surrounded by police who prevented or controlled access of non-residents, not the cemetery but also the people. However, the mother of the man who considers dissent and its "martyr," Reyna Luisa Tamayo, and twelve other families were able to go to campus early in the morning to pray, sing and lay flowers at his grave.
Zapata's mother said that agents had placed no impediments in the past. "They moved away and let us pass," he said. And he also revealed that immigration officials visited her yesterday at his home to begin processing the passports of her and other relatives who wish to move to the United States as political refugees after receiving the proper visas by U.S.
authorities. Meanwhile, near Banes, in Havana and other towns on the island, police practice, however dozens of short-term detention and arrest or detention home to avoid demonstrations. At noon, the Speaker of the illegal but tolerated by the Human Rights Commission, Elizardo Sanchez, measured in hundreds of total operations performed from days ago (46 arrests in the streets and 54 arrests at home).
As the day passed, the number was increasing. The popular blogger Yoani Sanchez did not cease to convey details about via Twitter: "Opponents Holguín surrounded." "Arrested Daniel Banes Mesa cemetery. Military and paramilitary presence. " "Police take to the streets prevents opponents in Colón (Matanzas )"...
Las Damas de Blanco, relatives of the 75 dissidents arrested in 2003 and recently released the vast majority (six remain in prison), celebrated with an evening for Zapata difficulties at home of one of the leaders of the group, Laura Pollan. She told prior to the merger how police closed nearby streets and arrested some of the women attending the event.
Pollan said security members had come to his house on Tuesday to require to withdraw and ask you to think about possible consequences for the process releases the government of Raul Castro seems to completion. Throughout the afternoon, hundreds of government supporters gathered at the home of Pollan screamed and threw eggs at nineteen ladies finally gathered there.
The dissident Guillermo Farinas, awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament following the hunger strike which he starred for more than four months after the death of Zapata, reported this morning that the police had "besieged" at his home in Santa Clara. And said a captain had gone to see him the day before to deter any protests.
"I said, he added that this would not be a tab in the Domino more demonstrations in the Middle East." Hours later, Farina was arrested and taken to a police station. In Washington, State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley, deplored the "ongoing intimidation and harassment by the Cuban Government to the activists and their relatives who work for human rights in the island." About Zapata, who died at age 42, said: "His death underscores the injustice of the detention of political prisoners in Cuba should be released without delay." The demonstrations came a tribute to Zapata preceded by a popular response failed attempt on Monday near the Museum of the Revolution in Havana, organized from the social network Facebook.
The place went undercover agents and foreign journalists, perhaps they were also some protesters, but were not visible. Some of them complained, through the Internet, similar to preventive detention yesterday. 
The cemetery where the remains of Orlando Zapata, in the town of Banes (Holguín) woke up surrounded by police who prevented or controlled access of non-residents, not the cemetery but also the people. However, the mother of the man who considers dissent and its "martyr," Reyna Luisa Tamayo, and twelve other families were able to go to campus early in the morning to pray, sing and lay flowers at his grave.
Zapata's mother said that agents had placed no impediments in the past. "They moved away and let us pass," he said. And he also revealed that immigration officials visited her yesterday at his home to begin processing the passports of her and other relatives who wish to move to the United States as political refugees after receiving the proper visas by U.S.
authorities. Meanwhile, near Banes, in Havana and other towns on the island, police practice, however dozens of short-term detention and arrest or detention home to avoid demonstrations. At noon, the Speaker of the illegal but tolerated by the Human Rights Commission, Elizardo Sanchez, measured in hundreds of total operations performed from days ago (46 arrests in the streets and 54 arrests at home).
As the day passed, the number was increasing. The popular blogger Yoani Sanchez did not cease to convey details about via Twitter: "Opponents Holguín surrounded." "Arrested Daniel Banes Mesa cemetery. Military and paramilitary presence. " "Police take to the streets prevents opponents in Colón (Matanzas )"...
Las Damas de Blanco, relatives of the 75 dissidents arrested in 2003 and recently released the vast majority (six remain in prison), celebrated with an evening for Zapata difficulties at home of one of the leaders of the group, Laura Pollan. She told prior to the merger how police closed nearby streets and arrested some of the women attending the event.
Pollan said security members had come to his house on Tuesday to require to withdraw and ask you to think about possible consequences for the process releases the government of Raul Castro seems to completion. Throughout the afternoon, hundreds of government supporters gathered at the home of Pollan screamed and threw eggs at nineteen ladies finally gathered there.
The dissident Guillermo Farinas, awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament following the hunger strike which he starred for more than four months after the death of Zapata, reported this morning that the police had "besieged" at his home in Santa Clara. And said a captain had gone to see him the day before to deter any protests.
"I said, he added that this would not be a tab in the Domino more demonstrations in the Middle East." Hours later, Farina was arrested and taken to a police station. In Washington, State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley, deplored the "ongoing intimidation and harassment by the Cuban Government to the activists and their relatives who work for human rights in the island." About Zapata, who died at age 42, said: "His death underscores the injustice of the detention of political prisoners in Cuba should be released without delay." The demonstrations came a tribute to Zapata preceded by a popular response failed attempt on Monday near the Museum of the Revolution in Havana, organized from the social network Facebook.
The place went undercover agents and foreign journalists, perhaps they were also some protesters, but were not visible. Some of them complained, through the Internet, similar to preventive detention yesterday.
- Yoani Sanchez: Orlando Zapata Tamayo: On The First Anniversary of His Death for Human Rights in Cuba [VIDEO] (24/02/2011)
- "Anniversary of Zapata Tamayo's death brings arrests in Cuba (morning roundup)" and related posts (24/02/2011)
- US urges Cuba dissidents' release (24/02/2011)
- Cuban hunger striker remembered on anniversary of death (23/02/2011)
- Obama calls for freeing Cuba political prisoners (23/02/2011)
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