Anti-communist women imprisoned for their beliefs in Cuba told the Spain-based Diario de Cuba publication that the state systematically uses sexual assault, including hours-long gang rapes, to torture dissidents in its prisons.
Members of dissident group “Ladies in White,” wives of former political prisoners, protest on March 20, 2016, in Havana .
“They just explained to me now that I got out that ‘pavilion’ is to go have sexual relations,” she said. Zequeira was 17 when this happened; she recalled repeatedly telling the guards that she was a minor only to be mocked or ignored.
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