Hundreds of people, including dozens of dissident artists and opposition activists, remain detained in Communist-run Cuba a month after unprecedented anti-government protests, according to rights groups.
People shout slogans against the government during a protest against and in support of the government, amidst the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Havana, Cuba July 11, 2021.Hundreds of people, including dozens of dissident artists and opposition activists, remain detained in Communist-run Cuba a month after unprecedented antigovernment protests, according to rights groups.
While 249 people have been released, many to house arrest, most remain in “preventive jail,” she said. The whereabouts of 10 people is unknown. The protests were largely peaceful, although state media showed some demonstrators looting and throwing stones at police. One person died and several people, including government supporters, were injured, authorities have confirmed.
Upon her admission to jail, where she was kept 10 days incommunicado, she said she was required to put a finger in her vagina to show she was concealing nothing as part of a strip-search. Officers kept interrupting her attempts to sleep and one officer made sexual taunts, she said in an interview. Jose Daniel Ferrer, the leader of Cuba's largest opposition group, and Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, head of a dissident artists collective, were both arrested on their way to the protests before even arriving, according to their supporters.
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