{"id":938351,"date":"2021-10-29T16:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938351"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:58:56","slug":"cuba-regime-thugs-gang-beat-spit-on-political-prisoner-to-terrorize-fellow-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-regime-thugs-gang-beat-spit-on-political-prisoner-to-terrorize-fellow-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba: Regime Thugs Gang Beat, Spit on Political Prisoner to &#039;Terrorize&#039; Fellow Inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcuba-regime-thugs-gang-beat-spit-on-political-prisoner-to-terrorize-fellow-inmates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1233929252-1-e1635537422649-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Guards at a women\u2019s prison in central Santa Clara, Cuba, dragged political prisoner&nbsp;Arianna L\u00f3pez Roque into the prison\u2019s yard and gave her a brutal gang beating in response to a demonstration she staged within the prison calling for a national strike, sources confirmed to Radio Mart\u00ed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez and husband&nbsp;Mitzael D\u00edaz Paseiro were among the thousands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/07\/14\/cuba-protests-arrested-police-target-religious-leaders\/\">arrested<\/a> for participating nationwide in anti-communist protests on July 11. Prosecutors have <a href=\"https:\/\/diariodecuba.com\/derechos-humanos\/1635517754_35170.html\">demanded<\/a> eight years in prison for both, though no evidence exists they engaged in any violent activity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>At least 500 people remained in Cuban police custody either for participating in the protests or being caught in the vicinity of them as of October, though new cases of imprisoned civilians have continued to <a href=\"https:\/\/diariodecuba.com\/derechos-humanos\/1635375304_35097.html\">surface<\/a> regularly as police reveal the whereabouts of the victims to their families. Many of those detained were minors \u2013 often minors walking on the sidewalk near a protest or filming one, but not actively lobbying against the regime \u2013 and some have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/07\/28\/cuba-minor-arrested-witnessing-protests-says-police-threatened-rape-her\/\">accused<\/a> Cuban state security agents of extreme violence, including sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez reportedly staged a one-woman protest in her prison Tuesday, resulting in a staged beating dissidents say was meant to discourage others in the facility from supporting her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey dragged her to the prison yard and there was an entire garrison waiting there armed with batons, hoses,\u201d Jorge Luis Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez, an anti-communist Cuban dissident known popularly as Ant\u00fanez, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotelevisionmarti.com\/a\/la-arrastraban-la-escup%C3%ADan-la-pateaban-en-presencia-de-toda-la-poblaci%C3%B3n-penal-ant%C3%BAnez-denuncia-golpiza-a-presa-pol%C3%ADtica-arianna-l%C3%B3pez\/306380.html\">confirmed<\/a> to the U.S.-based Radio Mart\u00ed, citing \u201creliable sources and eyewitnesses.\u201d&nbsp;Ant\u00fanez himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/08\/16\/cuba-rearrests-political-prisoner-miami-terrorists\/\">served<\/a>&nbsp;17 years in prison in Cuba for openly advocating for the fall of the communist regime. His brother, Free Yoruba leader Loreto Hern\u00e1ndez Garc\u00eda, was arrested in the aftermath of July 11 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/religious-prisoners-conscience\/forb-victims-database\/loreto-hernandez-garcia\">remains<\/a> in prison at press time despite suffering from severe health complications.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ant\u00fanez described what happened to L\u00f3pez this week as \u201ca brutal and uncommon beating in reprisal for the strong speech she gave in the Guamajal prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She received, he continued, \u201ckicks, punches, moral offenses. They dragged her, they spit on her, they kicked her in front of the entire prison population and they did it with the objective of trying to terrorize the prison population. From there they moved her into a penitentiary cell where she currently remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow inmates reported the beating to sources on the outside. According to Ant\u00fanez, Cuban prison guards dragged L\u00f3pez to an isolation cell bloodied and delivered a second gang beating before tossing her in.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban Democratic Directorate (Directorio) confirmed using sources on the ground that L\u00f3pez had staged a one-woman call to arms against the regime Tuesday, supporting international calls for Cuban civilians to begin a national strike on November 15. Cuban dissidents have organized nationwide assemblies for November 15 calling for an end to the 62-year-old communist regime; one group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/10\/13\/cuba-denies-marching-permits-subversive-protesters\/\">attempted<\/a> to obtain a legal permit for the event, prompting outrage from the Castro regime. Cuban anti-communist leaders expect the assemblies to represent the largest organized protest since July 11, which in turn was one of the largest protests in the post-Castro history of the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/08\/03\/study-187000-cubans-participated-protests-july\/\">attracting<\/a> an estimated 187,000 participants.<\/p>\n<p>Directorio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/directoriodemocraticocubano\/posts\/1721463288042187\">said<\/a> in a statement Tuesday that L\u00f3pez had received another beating before delivering a loud monologue within the prison calling for a national strike and chanting, \u201cDown with the dictatorship!\u201d Prison guards reportedly prompted the protest by refusing to grant her visits with her underaged children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>L\u00f3pez\u2019s experience has prompted a stern condemnation from Cuba\u2019s Latin American neighbors.<br \/>The Union of Latin American Parties, which represents pro-human rights groups throughout the region, published a statement on Friday \u201cenergetically condemn[ing] the unjust and illegal detention of Arianna, who was arrested along with husband Mitzael D\u00edaz Paseiro, for the sole reason of having participated in civilian peaceful protests in Cuba on July 11.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe even more strongly condemn the beating Arianna recently received within the \u2018Guamajal\u2019 women\u2019s prison for having called for a national strike on November 15 within the same prison,\u201d the statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/directoriodemocraticocubano\/photos\/a.369329423255587\/1723112124543970\/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWhBnT802q3BY2sXWERn66DysETG_3ZarTMEe7OkbcV_bouNFZjfQkEHOWhCX-HXcjeVnkx_nR1nKPXRz35X4yVuADur1fdnU-9eC6ca9LBkutvobdPFqN3nZVONyjgHn1gGQVtLkcthWr0zRLpvqPJ&amp;__tn__=EH-R\">read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The national strike \u2013 meant to starve the communist regime of the economic resources it uses to oppress its citizens \u2013 and the November 15 planned protest has elicited calls to violence from the Castro regime. Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, the top figurehead of the Castro mafia, urged citizens in a speech Sunday to use \u201call means necessary\u201d to silence dissent, noting accurately that the communist constitution does not dissuade violence against anyone who opposes communism.<\/p>\n<p>The planned protests, D\u00edaz-Canel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/10\/26\/cuba-communists-weapons-war-dissidents\/\">said<\/a>, were \u201can act of subordination to Yankee hegemony,\u201d without offering any evidence that the U.S. government was involved in any way.<\/p>\n<p>The Castro regime also organized a \u201cTerritorial Day of Defense\u201d on Sunday in which trusted pro-communist citizens brandished what appeared to be machine guns for footage distributed through social media. Various cities held \u201cacts of revolutionary affirmation\u201d in which civilians threatened anti-communists with sticks and rocks or pretended to practice their shooting. Owning a private firearm is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunpolicy.org\/firearms\/region\/cuba\">illegal<\/a> in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635543709512000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFEw0vSvC63I4pATr7JNtPpaW5gLw\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635543709512000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEKxpWrPHE3c5gmmyR1Q0DvqG3b5g\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guards at a women\u2019s prison in central Santa Clara, Cuba, dragged political prisoner\u00a0Arianna L\u00f3pez Roque into the prison\u2019s yard and gave her a brutal gang beating in response to a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}