Castroism prohibits the mobilization of journalists and activists on Sunday

Castroism prohibits the mobilization of journalists and activists on Sunday. Several Cuban activists dawned besieged and under house arrest this Sunday by State Security agents.

"Repression, the violation of our freedoms, cultural and of all kinds, continue to be the main tool of forced submission of an abusive government such as the one that reigns today on the island. I dawn besieged by the State Security and the political police," denounced the activist AfrikReina.

"The crime in question? To create a prosperous and joyful Cuba, in our present and for our future: we DO want a Cuba "with all and for the good of all", she assured. 

UNPACU could end hunger strike after apparent lifting of police siege (VIDEO)

After 26 days of being in place, the Cuban regime would have lifted this Friday the police siege to the main headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, in Santiago de Cuba, where some of the 25 activists who joined the hunger strike called by the opposition organization remain.

"If so, we could speak of a victory of reason, of justice, of the humanism that characterizes us, against the perversity of the regime that hates its people," said the leader of the opposition movement, José Daniel Ferrer, in a live broadcast via Periscope along with Cuba Decide coordinator Rosa María Payá. 

List of UNPACU strikers. Twenty-five activists of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) remain on hunger strike in the Altamira and El Cristo neighborhoods of Santiago de Cuba, but also in Guantanamo, Havana, Holguin, Las Tunas and Ciego de Avila.

Only one activist, Alberto Acosta Sánchez, is supporting the hunger strike from Brazil, as reported to CiberCuba by Nelva Ortega, member of UNPACU and wife of its leader, José Daniel Ferrer.

Although so far more than 70 people have joined the UNPACU hunger strike and a hundred have supported it with fasting, most of them have had to abandon the protest due to health problems.

On Wednesday, April 7, the physical deterioration of José Daniel Ferrer, who continues to suffer from kidney and stomach pains, head and joint pains, nausea, dizziness, loss of balance and weight, and blurred vision, was a cause for concern. 

Amnesty Int'l: Communist Cuba represses all dissent. The Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The State of the World's Human Rights, published on Wednesday, denounces that the Cuban regime represses all forms of dissidence.

The report, which covers 149 countries and contains an exhaustive analysis of the trends observed by this organization in human rights around the world in 2020, mentions several cases of Cuban opponents, activists and journalists whose rights were violated in the period covered by the report, among them José Daniel Ferrer, Camila Acosta, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Denis Solís and Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces.

The region of the Americas continues to be one of the most dangerous in the world for defending human rights and Cuba is mentioned among the countries where journalists and human rights defenders suffered aggressions, threats, prosecutions, arbitrary detention and unlawful surveillance.