Saturday, January 29, 2011

Farias was arrested for the third consecutive da

Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has again been detained by police in the city of Santa Clara, while participating in an act of homage to the poet José Martí, along with 20 other opponents. This is the third time you stop the 2010 Sakharov Prize winner within 48 hours. Sources of Cuban dissidents have had a few hours after being released following his second arrest Fariñas went back out into the street to lay a wreath at a monument to Martí, whose birth was celebrated 158 on Friday in various parts of the island .

Three blocks from home, Fariñas and 20 other dissidents were intercepted by officers of special troops and police who arrested were taken away in vehicles. Most of the dissidents arrested belong to the Central Opposition Coalition and the 30th of November Movement, dissident organizations illegal.

Today the arrest is the third consecutive Guillermo Fariñas produced since last Wednesday when he was held six hours for participating in a protest against the eviction of a pregnant woman who was in a disused building health. He was finally free without charge. But only a day later, on Thursday, police again arrested, this time for 18 hours, while traveling with other opponents of a police station to inquire about the status of a dissident arrested.

When he returned home after her arrest, Fariñas told Efe that a police officer had warned him that they would arrest him if he went outside with other dissidents. "I said as we followed out into the street because we were going to be arrested since the protests the previous day had a special operational political situation in Santa Clara and would not allow there to be a social explosion," he said.

On 23 February last year, Guillermo "Coco" Fariñas said in hunger and thirst strike to demand the release of political prisoners sicker after the death of prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo opponent because of fasting for 85 days . Endured 135 days and left after the Cuban government announced its commitment to release 52 dissidents of the Group of 75, sentenced in 2003.

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