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Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy Members Request International Solidarity

19.08.2010

Violent crackdown on Cuban youth activists in Baracoa, Cuba by Cuban State Security. A woman 8 months pregnant is strip searched and abused. Brothers Néstor & Rolando Rodríguez Lobaina are 2 of the 5 detained activists. Activists began hunger strike on August 12. Their number will increase on August 23, the 6 month anniversary of Orlando Zapata Tamayo’s death. Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a valiant defender of the liberty of the Cuban people, died on February 23, 2010 murdered by the Castro regime which refused to guarantee respect for his basic rights. An Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, Zapata Tamayo engaged in a hunger strike of over 80 days to demand such a guarantee and to protest against terrible mistreatment he suffered in the Communist regime’s prisons,

See http://www.directorio.org/pressreleases/note.php?note_id=2808

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