Ladies in White and UNPACU member detained and beaten



She was going to the house of a sister white lady in order to escape the police and to arrive in time for the literary tea on the 18th, when agents of the Political Police and National Police together stop in one of the streets in Gibara and they start hitting her and put her into a patrol car and left her a few kilometers away from the neighborhood, threatening and wishing to her that somebody would rape or kill her. She has received deaths threats ,her family has been threatened too and they said they would apply the Law number 81 if she continues with her activism in UNPACU and as a Lady in White and apply the law 81.


Rights Abused

Civil and Political Rights
Personal freedom
Personal security and integrity
Right not to be submitted to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of opinion and expression
Right to seek, receive and impart information
Perpetrator
Police
State security agents
Ministry of the Interior
Political police
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