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Cuba detains "Women in White" activists on Human Rights Day

2014-12-10 5 Dailymotion

At a popular square in Cuba's Havana, plain clothes police officers stuff protesters into waiting cars.<br/> <br />The protesters are with the so-called Women in White ... wives and relatives of dissidents who have been in jail.<br/> <br />The "Women" are generally tolerated in Cuba, but occasionally harassed by authorities.<br/> <br />They came out on Wednesday for the annual International Human Rights Day.<br/> <br />But skirmishes like these continued at the square and it's unclear just how many protesters were carried away and detained.<br/> <br />It happened in front of pro-government supporters holding their own counter-protest ... chanting in support of the Communist, one-party government.<br/> <br />Authorities in Cuba typically detain dissidents for a few hours or a few days before letting them go, and the Women in White are often taken directly home instead of jail.<br/> <br />But police detained close to 400 opposition activists in November alone, and the monthly average of detentions this year has been nearl

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