HAVANA - After seven hours of detention, they have released along with another dozen dissidents. It 'was the same Guillermo Farinas to break the news release. The activists of the opposition to the Castro regime were arrested while protesting against the eviction of the house where lives a young pregnant woman.
Psychologist and journalist of 48 years, Farinas had put in place last year on a hunger strike that lasted 135 days, picking up the baton from Orlando Zapata, who died after a long fast to protest the lack of freedom of expression on the island. "We are free. We were arrested for coming to the aid of a family who wanted to evict.
The opposition should devote themselves to peaceful protests as ours," he reassured the phone according to Agence France Presse reported. Subsequently, the dissident told ANSA that the officers beat up those arrested, but not him. "They had orders not to touch me - said by telephone from his home in Santa Clara - 'Do not hit, or give him the Nobel Prize,' the captain said to the agents." Three thousand people attended the protest and protest "only nine supported the government," Farinas added specifying that the event has prevented the eviction of a pregnant mother of two homeless who had taken three days ago, an abandoned health center.
Farinas had called his mother to warn her of the arrest from the police, confirmed by Elizardo Sanchez, president of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights, illegal association in Cuba They pointed out that opponents were stopped at 17 hours local time (23 in Italy) and taken to the police station.
Farinas In 2010 he was awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov prize for freedom of expression. His protest, together with that which led to the death of Zapata, had persuaded the government of Raul Castro to release 41 of the 75 dissidents arrested in 2003. His arrest is in stark contrast with the latest moves by the regime, by virtue of an agreement with the local church hierarchy decided partially implemented and the release of 52 political prisoners. 
Psychologist and journalist of 48 years, Farinas had put in place last year on a hunger strike that lasted 135 days, picking up the baton from Orlando Zapata, who died after a long fast to protest the lack of freedom of expression on the island. "We are free. We were arrested for coming to the aid of a family who wanted to evict.
The opposition should devote themselves to peaceful protests as ours," he reassured the phone according to Agence France Presse reported. Subsequently, the dissident told ANSA that the officers beat up those arrested, but not him. "They had orders not to touch me - said by telephone from his home in Santa Clara - 'Do not hit, or give him the Nobel Prize,' the captain said to the agents." Three thousand people attended the protest and protest "only nine supported the government," Farinas added specifying that the event has prevented the eviction of a pregnant mother of two homeless who had taken three days ago, an abandoned health center.
Farinas had called his mother to warn her of the arrest from the police, confirmed by Elizardo Sanchez, president of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights, illegal association in Cuba They pointed out that opponents were stopped at 17 hours local time (23 in Italy) and taken to the police station.
Farinas In 2010 he was awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov prize for freedom of expression. His protest, together with that which led to the death of Zapata, had persuaded the government of Raul Castro to release 41 of the 75 dissidents arrested in 2003. His arrest is in stark contrast with the latest moves by the regime, by virtue of an agreement with the local church hierarchy decided partially implemented and the release of 52 political prisoners.
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