Ladies in White Report the Repression They Suffer to Attorney General

Ladies in White Report the Repression They Suffer to Attorney General

14ymedio, Havana, 2017 — The Ladies of White Yamile Garro Alfonso,
Lázara Barbara Sendilla and Maria Cristina Labrada delivered on Monday,
as representatives of the whole movement, a summary report to the
Attorney General’s Office on the repression they have suffered over the
last fifteen months.

The leader of the women’s group, Berta Soler, explained to 14ymedio that
the report is the same as the one presented on 23 March by Leticia Ramos
to the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression,
David Kayes, on “Arbitrary detention and harassment against the family
of Ladies in White,” but that it had been “updated to yesterday.”

Soler detailed that the new version of the report explains how “the
Cuban regime” threatens them “all the time” with fines to keep them from
leaving the country and with imprisonment.

The leader of the movement denounced that activist Lismerys Quintana
Ávila was sent to prison on Monday in what she defined as “a rigged trial.”

“They are really inventing some crimes to be able to fine us and to kill
the Ladies in White,” explains Soler

“We delivered it to the Attorney General’s Office, the European Union
Delegation, the mailbox of the Apostolic Nunciature and the Embassy of
the United States,” said Soler. She also said that they will also “hand
it over to the Archbishop of Havana.” According to the Lady in White,
the movement wants the Catholic Church to understand what is happening
to them.

“They are really inventing some crimes to be able to fine us and to kill
the Ladies in White,” explains Soler, who considers the actions of the
authorities arbitrary and also denounces “what they are doing to the
families, to the children and spouses,” of the activists.

He added that they plan to deliver a copy of the text, about twelve
pages, to the Military Prosecutor’s Office and the State Council, as
well as to send it to the embassies of Spain and the Czech Republic by
e-mail.

She also denounced that the Ladies in White headquarters in the Lawton
neighborhood of Havana is surrounded by “an operation” that “has been
around the clock since Thursday, March 23.”

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