Yuneisis Amaya Arias is one of the eleven Ladies in White that were detained by the political police in order to keep them from attending the Sunday Mass in the Nuestra Señora del Rosario church. That day the city was full of political police activity: motorcycles, patrol cars, jeeps, uniformed officials and undercover officials. The eleven women were detained and taken to a local police unit where there were no bathrooms, no water to drink, and nowhere to sit down so they stood for hours during the four hours of the detention.
Rights Abused
- Civil and Political Rights
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Right not to be submitted to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Freedom of assembly
Right not to be arbitrarily detained
Right to be informed of the reasons for one's detention, at the moment of detention, and to be noticed, without delay, of the accusations
- Perpetrator
- Political police
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