Cuban regime's harassment of Damas de Blanco on their 22nd anniversary

Ladies in White leader Berta Soler and her husband, former political prisoner Angel Moya, were detained Sunday by paramilitary women as they were leaving the organization's headquarters, located in Lawton, Havana, they denounced on social networks.

 Both leaders were arrested at noon and taken to different police stations: he to the Guanabacoa unit and Soler to the Cotorro unit.

Moya explained in the complaint that the arrests were recorded through cell phones by State Security repressors and by surveillance cameras pointed at the headquarters of the Ladies in White.

During the interrogation to which he was subjected, an agent who identified himself as Major Damian warned him that this year "we were going off the air and they would have (he insinuated to me) familiar faces who would testify against us".

Other activists of the organization were arrested on Sunday, mainly in Matanzas province.

The opponents were released on Monday near the national headquarters of the Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco).

This movement - which emerged in response to the Black Spring of 2003, a wave of repression that led to the imprisonment of 75 opponents, including relatives of the Ladies in White - won the 2005 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament.

Laura Pollán, one of the founders of the group, became a symbol of resistance by leading peaceful protests with other women dressed in white, representing peace and hope.

Several Ladies in White are currently in prison for political reasons, including Saylí Navarro, Sissi Abascal, Tania Echevarría and Aymara Nieto.

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