Siege, arrests and acts of repudiation against members of the Archipelago youth movement

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The harassment and "blockade" against the playwright Yunior García Aguilera, visible head of the Archipelago citizen action platform, preceded the first hours of 15-N, for which

are called

in Cuba and in 100 cities of the planet. State Security agents and Castro's shock brigades prevented the director of Teatro Trébol from walking to the Havana seawall with a white rose in his hand.

They "walled up" him by force inside his home, even displaying Cuban flags in front of his window so that the world would not see how he showed the

The siege continued into the night, with a government presence in the nearest streets, even with a bus blocking traffic.

The repression and harassment continues this Monday against the coordinators and members of the Archipelago. Democracy activist

has suffered the first act of repudiation in her own home, with a mob from the Federation of Cuban Women transported by buses to the site.

The Archipelago coordinator defended herself against the insults of the ruling party.

The writer

another of the group's moderators, remains in detention, as he himself communicated during his transfer to the Holguín Criminal Investigation Department, in the eastern part of the country.

disappeared in Santiago de Cuba, while independent journalists and activists have tightened the fence that prevents them, by force, from leaving their homes.

"It is already known how much fear they are to show what they are," denounced the art historian Carolina Barrera, with dual Hispanic-Cuban nationality, victim of an operation of at least 20 people.

The activist, who was

the father of the Cuban homeland, wearing pajamas with stars, has suffered a police siege around her home for months.

"We have been informed that if we participate in the demonstration we will be arrested.

We are priests to preach the gospel and the gospel speaks of freedom, justice and truth, what our people are asking for. If being detained is the price for being consistent with the gospel, be it.

announced Catholic priest Alberto Reyes Pías, who is willing to march with parents Rolando Montes de Oca and Castor Álvarez.

The letter published last week by 15 Cuban priests against the repression prompted the Cuban bishops to make public a statement in which they bet on "the implementation of the necessary changes, so long desired, that favor a dignified and happy life for all children. here in this land of ours ".

In a joint communiqué, fifty organizations, led by the Archipelago, the San Isidro Movement and 27-N, demanded that

High Representative of the United Nations for Human Rights, and the European Union take "measures of monitoring and public sanctions for human rights violations in the framework of 15-N ".

"Now or never.

because they were born when the symbols no longer made sense. They do not have a past that tries to take over their conscience. Their today is terrible, the Cuba that they had to live. They do not owe anything to the past, only misery and shame, "the writer Camilo Vargas explains to EL MUNDO.

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