Cuban bloggers arrested and beaten
Via Babalu, La Seguridad de Estado detiene a Yoani Sánchez y otros blogueros cuando iban a participar en una manifestación-performance en la calle 23
Babalu translates,
Penultimos Dias has word that Yoani Sanchez and other Cuban bloggers have been arrested in Havana.Yoani Sánchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, Ciro Díaz and Claudia Cadelo among those arrested.
Later in the evening,
Penultimos Dias reports the Yoani and Orlando were verbally abused and severely beaten. Yoani was told that “this is as far as she would go.”
Ernesto, I have just spoken with Yoani, she is already in her house. She took a blow to the eye. They have beaten her physically and verbally. Orlando as well. They were shouting at the patrol from inside until they had arrived, they placed her head down and her feet up and they applied karate blows. She was very nervous, so was I.
Yoani blogs at Generation Y.
You can follow Claudia Cadelo’s tweets here.
Tags: Ciro Díaz, Claudia Cadelo, Fausta's blog, Orlando Luis Pardo, Yoani Sánchez
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November 9th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
This is, unfortunately, an all too typical response of a dying dictatorship to the faintest hint of opposition. I read “Generación Y” almost every day, and all it covers are events that every Cuban, and every visitor to Cuba, can see every day. Cuba is a failed political and economic system, kept alive on handouts, first by the Soviet Union, now by Venezuela. Cuba today is a gigantic prison, and the Communist Party the jailers.
November 14th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
excuse me for asking but why have we not seen any pictures of Ms. Sanchez following her attack? As someone who runs a blog like Generation Y, why did she not take photographic evidence? The Cuban gevrnemnt is not run by saints and monks, but they would have a harder time denying something like this took place if we had some visual evidence rather than just a story.
November 14th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Eduardo,
Go to Cuba and try photographing anything without the permission of the government.
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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