Cuban Dissidents Reported More than 900 Political Arrests in October

Cuban Dissidents Reported More than 900 Political Arrests in October /
Diario de Cuba
Posted on November 1, 2013

Havana, Agencies, 1 November 2013 – The Cuban Commission for Human
Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) reported Friday that during
the month of October there were 909 "politically motivated arbitrary
arrests" on the island and warned of a clear trend of increasing
repression throughout 2013, EFE reported.

In its monthly report on repression in Cuba, the group led by dissident
Elizardo Sanchez said that the number of arrests of October is one of
the highest for a month in the past two decades.

The CCDHRN further reported that there was an "unacceptable and
unjustified increase" of police violence and "para-police" violence,
referring to the so-called "rapid response brigades," as well as
"sometimes covert brutal physical assaults against peaceful dissidents."

"We continue to suffer from high levels of political and social
repression in parallel with the worsening economic situation, increased
poverty and the hopelessness of the majority who struggle to survive on
an average monthly salary of less than $20, one of the lowest in the
world," says the opposition group.

The CCDHRN hold Cuba's "top leadership" responsible for this "spiral of
repressive violence" along with "the heads of the powerful bodies of
political repression and intimidation, guilty of true hate crimes
committed under the guise of protecting national security and the public
order," the organization said in its report.

From DiariodeCuba.com, 1 November 2013

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