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Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 1
Violations of Human Rights in Cuba
July, 2015
The following report compiles information of Cubans arbitrarily arrested and/or detained, harassed, attacked, and faced acts of
repudiation* by the Cuban government in the month of July, 2015. This information is based on the monthly report published by the
Comisión Cubana de Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional (Cuban NGO specializing in Human Rights as well as other
sources in the island).
*Acts of Repudiation are physical and/or verbal aggression mobs organized by State Security (Cuba’s political police).
At least 674 arrests for political reasons in July.
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 2
Date Incident Location
Victims Incident Type Source of
Information
07/01/15
Campechuela,
Granma Augusto Cabrera,Dianelis
Martínez, Alexander Cabrera
González, Nelson Mojena Labrada,
Liuvi Mojena Labrada, Norberto
Mojena Labrada, Yilian Sosa
(Partido 30 de noviembre Frank
País)
Detained 10-12 hours by police
agents for honoring Pais.
Roberto Valdivia
07/02/15 Guantánamo Leinier Cruz Salfrán
(Unión Patriótica de Cubas)
Detained by political police for 6
hours to punish his dissident
activities.
Fernando Vázquez
07/02/15 Maceo,
Camagüey
Misael Cané Velázquez, Geikel
Tamayo Rivero, Dinza Gainza Moré (Frente Nacional Resistencia OZT)
Detained 3 hours by political
police because of their
involvement in dissident activities.
Fernando Vázquez
07/02/15 Cárdenas,
Matanzas
Francisco Díaz Tamarí, Juan Carlos
Paso González, Jorge Luís Paso
González, Pedro Luís Pereira Acosta,
Tomás Peña Lima, Nivardo Casel
González, Eduardo Pacheco Ortíz,
Alicia Fariñas Segura, Saima Lamas
Varzola, Evelyn Pacheco Lamas,
Elizabeth Pacheco Lamas, Tatiana
García, Reinaldo Segura González
(Partido para la Democracia Pedro Luís Boitel)
Detained 20 hours by political
police to prevent them from
traveling to Varadero.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 3
07/02/15 Cárdenas, Matanzas Alain Veguera Piedra, Yunier Valido
(Cuidadanos) Detained 20 hours by political
police to prevent them from
traveling to Varadero.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/02/15 Guantánamo Miguel Ángel López Herrera
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 2 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
07/03/15 Camagüey Orlando Gómez Hechevarría
(Frente Nacional Resistencia OZT)
Detained 9 hours by political
police for traveling to Havana.
Fernando Vázquez
07/04/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Dany Miranda Gil, Raime Acosta
González
(Movimiento Ciudadanos Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 14-20 hours by political
police for being suspects of
hanging anti-government posters.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/05/15 Holguín Arelis Palacio Alcina, Maylin
RicardoGóngora, Ada Iris Miranda
Leyva,Darelis Pupo Blanco, Ana
IrisMezerenes Sánchez, Yanelis
PichardoSánchez, Nelda Molina
Leyva, EmilceCéspedes Estrada,
Mayra GóngoraPupo, Daimaris
Corrales Piña, Rosa Escalona
Gómez, Ramón Zamora
Rodríguez, Lázaro Otamendi
García,Roberto González
Hernández, Yoel Ordóñez Gorotiza
(Damas de Blanco y
Acompañantes)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
07/05/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Juan Alberto de la Nuez Ramírez,
Roberto García López, José Alberto
Castro, Yanier Menéndez
(Movimiento Ciudadanos Reflexión
Detained 3-15 hours by political
pólice to keep them from attending
Sunday mass and showing support
to the Ladies in White.
Iván Hernández Carrillo
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 4
y Reconciliación)
07/05/15 Aguada de Pasajeros, Cienfuegos
Olga Renova Veiga, Madelín García Molina, Yaima Ulloa de la Torre,
Miladys Espino Díaz, Niurvis de la Rosa Hernández
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 3 hours by political
pólice to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/05/15 Cárdenas,
Matanzas
Leticia Ramos Herrería, Marisol
Fernandez Socorro
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 2 hours and later
watched by political police to
prevent them from traveling to
Aguada de Pasajeros and
participating in Sunday mass.
Iván Hernández Carrillo
07/05/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Yaniel Menéndez Díaz, Bárbaro de la Nuez Ramírez, Yasel Alonso
Armenteros, Joel Ramírez Peña, Oslendy García Espino, Emetrio
García Moreira, Juan Carlos Villegas Amador, Jose Alberto Castro
Rodríguez, Roberto García López, Asnaldo Moreira Rodríguez, Dany Miranda Gil, Yoel Rodríguez Pérez,
Yasniel Bolaños Núñez. (Movimiento Ciudadanos Reflexión y
Reconciliación)
Harassed by political police for
about 3 hours to prevent them
from attending Sunday mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/05/15 La Habana Dunia Medina Moreno, Yeniset
Amore Aguilera, Norma Cruz Casas,
Bárbara Aguilera García, Mayelín
Santiesteban López, Haydée
Gallardo Salazar, Danaisis Muñóz
López, Mayelín Peña Bullan, Maiden
Maidique Cruz
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 5
07/05/15 La Habana Bertha Soler Fernández, Zodrelis
Turruella Poncio, Lismeiris
Quintana, Ávila, Yamilé Garro
Alfonso, Joisy Jaramillo Sánchez, Gladys Capote Roque, Daisis Artiles
del Sol, Yamilé
Naranjo Figueredo, DellicGonzález
Dorrego, Xiomara de las Mercedes
Cruz Miranda, Roxilene Sotolongo
Cruz, Nieves Caridad Matamoros,
Julia Herrera Roque, Margarita
Barbena Calderín, Lisset Naranjo
Girón, Yurleany Tamayo Martínez,
Lázara Gleisys Acosta Toscano,
Eralidis Frómeta Polanco, Lázara
María Dorrego Guzmán, Caridad
Ramírez Utria, Aliuska Gómez García,
Ada María López Canino, Yamilé
Bargés Hurtado, Yaquelín Boni
Hechavarría, Adelma Guerra Ricardo,
Ivón Moralobos Melo, Luisa Ramona
Kindelán, Yusleidis Girón Ortiz,
Maylen González González,Deisy
Coello Basulto, Tamara Rodríguez
Quesada, Cecilia Guerra Alfonso,
Zenaida Hidalgo Cedeño,
Dayane Ortiz Hernández, Ivón de las
Mercedes Lazo Abreu, Lourdes
Esquivel Vieito, Zenaida Hidalgo
Cedeño, Ivón Lemus Fonseca, Odalis
Mérida Perdomo, Olaida del Castillo
Trujillo, Mirenia Henry García, Milvia
Narcisa Aguilera Lanz, Sarahí Pérez
Pedroso, Eugenia Díaz Hernández,
María Milián Pedroso, Ana Iris
Miranda Leyva
Detained 5 hours by political
police for demanding respect for
human rights and freedom for all
political prisoners.
Bertha Soler
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 6
(Damas de Blanco)
07/05/15 La Habana Hugo Damián Prieto Blanco, Lázaro
Mendoza García, Antonio González
Rodiles, José Díaz Silva, Vladimir
Turró Páez, José Antonio Pompa
López, Juan Lamas Martínez, Leudis
Reyes Cuza, Reinor Figueredo
Castellano, Ricardo Luna Rodríguez,
Francisco García Puniel, Liván Gómez
Castillo, Lázaro José de la Noval,
Ángel Figueredo Castellano, Reinier
Figueredo Gallardo, Reinaldo
Rodríguez Hernández, Raúl Borges
Álvarez, Julio Antonio Guzmán,
Reinier Wilson Castellano, José
Antonio Mereira Laffita, Andrés
Avelino Domínguez Beltrán, Rolando
Reyes Rabanal, Luis Enrique López
Torres, Claudio Fuentes, Heriberto
Pons, Osvaldo Moralobos, Denis
Manuel González, Pavel Herrera
Hernández, Rubén Darío García Artes,
Luis Leondan Marín Aguilar, Arturo
Rojas, Luis Mario Muguelcia Moreira,
Alejandro Uranga, Behiker Ordoñez
Guilarte, Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera,
Damaris Moya Portier, Jorge Luis
Pérez García Antúnez, Luis Andrés
Domínguez Sardiñas, Iván Fernández
Depreste, Ciro Alexis Casanova Pérez
Miguel Borroto
(Different organizations)
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 7
07/05/15 La Habana Eugenio Hernández Hernández,
Maribel Hernández Gil, Mario
Alberto Hernández Leyva, Daniel
Alfaro Frías,
Detained 5 hours for showing
support to the Ladies in White
Bertha Soler
Sandalio Mejías Zulueta, Osvaldo
Mendoza Ferriol, Cervilio Villegas
Marrero, Ángel Moya Acosta,
Lázaro
Yuri Valle Roca, Aurelio González
Blanco, Egberto Ángel Escobedo
Morales, Jorge Luis Suárez Varona,
Boris González Arena, Ramón
Alejandro Muñóz González, Manuel
Velázquez Licea, Ernesto Travieso
(Different Organizations)
07/06/15 Parque Central,
La Habana
Carlos Manuel Figueroa Álvarez,
Lázaro Kessell Marruecos
(Movimiento Antorcha Martiana)
Detained 7 hours by political
pólice for speaking to tourists
about the human rights violations
committed by the government.
Iván Hernández Carrillo
07/06/15 Santa Isabel de
las Lajas,
Cienfuegos
Jean Miguel Duarte Vázquez
(Movimiento Ciudadanos Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 1 hours by political
police and threatened because of
his dissident activities.
Manolo Sarduy
07/07/15 La Fortuna,
Boyeros
Agustín Figueroa Galindo, José
Elías González Agüero, Carlos
Manuel Pupo Rodríguez, Alexis
Hernández Cañizares, Rolando
Reyes Rabanal, Edilberto Pons
Ruíz, Oslaida del
Castillo, Osvaldo Moralobos
(Partido Unión por Cuba Libre)
Detained 5 hours inside a pólice
car and later abandoned miles
from their original location to
prevent them from holding a
meeting.
Carlos Manuel Pupo
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 8
07/07/15 Batabanó,
Mayabeque
Beheir Ordóñez Guilarte, Luis
Mario Moqueira Morera
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained for hours by political
police for attending Sunday mass
and supporting the Ladies in
White.
Rolando Reyes
Rabanal
07/07/15 Batabanó,
Mayabeque
Manuel Velázquez Licea
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 7 hours by political
police for demanding the release
of dissidents detained for attending
Sunday mass.
Rolando Reyes
Rabanal
07/07/15 Manzanillo,
Granma
Yoandri Gutiérrez Vargas
(Impacto Juvenil Martiano) Detained 4 hours by political
police for being involved with
dissident activities. His belongings
were burned and he was
threatened.
Arturo Acosta
07/08/15 Camagüey Ramón Vasallo Marrero, Dorico
Alexander Sánchez, Fernando
Guerra Vázquez
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 2 hours by political
police for placing anti-government
posters.
Fernando Vázquez
07/08/15 Santa Clara, Villa Clara
Toni Colina Márquez
(Movimiento Ciudadanos Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 1 hour by political police
for peacefully protesting in public.
Manolo Sarduy
07/08/15 Manicaragua,
Villa Clara
José Leyva Díaz
(Movimiento Ciudadanos Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 3 hours by political
police for peacefully protesting in
public.
Manolo Sarduy
07/08/15 Manatí, Las
Tunas
Yasmany Ovalde León
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba) Detained 12 hours by 3 political
police agents for expressing his
opinion about the new US-Cuba
relations.
Yasmany Ovalde León
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 9
07/08/15 Parque Central,
La Habana
Carlos Amauri Calderìn, Isaìn
López
Luna y Alexander Allan Rodríguez
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained by political police for
their involvement in dissident
activities.
Arcelio Molina
07/09/15 Centro Habana, La Habana
Leudis Reyes Cuza
(Frente de Acción Cívica OZT)
Detained 7 hours by political
police for expressing in public his
support for the Ladies in White
and for demanding freedom for all
political prisoners.
Hugo Damián Prieto
Blanco
07/09/15 Arroyo Naranjo,
La Habana
Eduardo Ramos Balaguer, Reinier
Villegas Pérez, Fernando Novoa
Esquivel
(Fundación Frank País)
Detained and questioned for 2-4
hours by political police agents in
regards to their involvement in
dissident activities.
Gerardo Lazcano,
Augusto Guerra
Márquez
07/10/15 Cárdenas Leticia Ramos Herrería, Rudel
Montes de Oca Quesada
(Dama de Blanco, Partido por la
Democracia Pedro Luís Boitel)
Detained 7 hours by political
police. They were questioned and
the police tried confiscating the
cellphones they had received in
Miami in May 2015.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/11/15 Caimito,
Artemisa
Oilyn Hernández Rodríguez,
Oledaisys Hernández Rodríguez
(Damas de Blanco, and a friend)
Detained for hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending mass.
Oilyn Hernández
Rodríguez
07/11/15
Jagüey Grande,
Matanzas
Mercedes Estrada Marcos, Edelvys
Granda Pérez, Dagoberto Santana
Marichal, Armando Trujillo
(Proyecto Millo Ochoa – Jagüey
Grande)
Detained 4-24 hours by political
police to prevent them from
traveling to Havana and attending
mass.
Félix Navarro
Rodríguez
07/11/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Toni Colina Márquez, Ramón
Armenteros Pérez, Santiago López
Morales, Yuset García Álvarez,
Yoel Bravo López
(Frente Resistencia Cívica OZT)
Detained 1 hour by political police
to prevent them from attending
mass.
Manolo Sarduy
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 10
07/11/15 Parque Central,
La Habana
Ernesto Ortega Sarduy
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba) Detained by political police
because of his dissident activities.
Arcelio Molina
07/12/15 Holguín Maylín Ricardo Góngora, Niurka
Cruz Cruz
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
07/12/15 Bayamo Yudisbel Roselló Mojena, Ivania
Rodríguez Rodríguez, Nidia
Rodríguez Santiesteban
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
07/12/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Leticia Ramos Herrería, Maricel
Fernández Socorro, Tania
Echevarría Menéndez, Niurvis la
Rosa Hernández, Olga Relova
Vega, Miladis Espinosa, Yaima
Ulloa, Yudania Rodríguez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/12/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Juan Alberto de la Nuez Ramírez,
Bárbaro de la Nuez Ramírez, Emilio
García Moreira, Yasmiel Méndez
Díaz, José Alberto Castro Rodríguez,
Dany Miranda Gil, Juan Carlos
Villegas Maduro, Orlendy García
Espino, Yoel Ramírez Peña, Arnaldo
Morera Rodríguez, Orlando Jeréz
(Movimiento Ciudadano Reflexión y
Reconciliación)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/12/15 Caimito,
Artemisa
Oilyn Hernández Rodríguez, Rosa
María Rodríguez Molina
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 9 hours by political
police and later abandoned miles
away from their original location
to prevent them from attending
Sunday mass in Havana.
Oilyn Hernández
Rodríguez
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 11
07/12/15 Pinar del Río Olga Lidia Torres, Amparo
Milagros, Yuliet Margarita
Rodríguez, Raquel Rodríguez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6-8 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
07/12/15 Santiago de Cuba Duniela Verdecia Matos, Santa
Fernández Díaz, Bismaika Amelo
Jardines, Marina Paz Labaceno,
Reina Luisa Rodríguez Cañada
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6-8 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler Fernández
07/12/15 Palma Soriano,
Santiago de Cuba
Denia Fernández Rey, Magda
Mendoza Díaz, Marielis Manzano
Carballo, Olga Lidia La O Figueredo,
Yuneisis Amaya Arias, María Lorena
Gondres de la Rosa, Elsa Lisis Isaac
Reyes, María Caridad Dobarro Dinza
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6-8 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler Fernández
07/12/15 La Habana Hugo Damián Prieto Blanco, Lázar
Mendoza García, Henry Rey
Rodríguez, José Díaz Silva,
Vladimir Turró Páez, José Antonio
Pompa López, Juan Lamas
Martínez, Luís Andrés Domínguez
Sardiña, Reinor Figueredo
Castellano, Ricardo Luna
Rodríguez, Francisco García
Puniel, Liván Gómez Castillo,
Lázaro José de
la Noval, Ángel Figueredo
Castellano, Reinier Figueredo
Gallardo, Reinaldo
Rodríguez Hernández, Daniel
Alfaro Frías, Lázaro Yuri Valle
Roca, Reinier Wilson Castellano,
José Antonio Moreira Laffita,
Detained 6-8 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 12
Lázaro de la Noval
Usint, Saqueo Báez Guerrero, Luis
Enrique Martínez, Yelkis Puig
Rodríguez, Jorge Luis Romero
Becerra, Mario Alberto Hernández
Leyva, Pavel Herrera Hernández,
Sandalio Mejías Zulueta, Yulexis
Despaigne Puig, Servilio Villegas
Marrero, Damaris Moya Portielles,
Miguel Borroto, Edelvis Granda
Pérez, Dagoberto Santana Marichal,
ArmandoTrujillo González, Lázaro
Keisel Barreto, Eriberto Pons
(Different organizations)
07/12/15 La Habana Guillermo Manuel García Velazco,
Marcelino Abreu Bonora, Luis
Enrique López Torres, Ciro Alexis
Casanova Pérez, Yaite Cruz Sosa,
Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, Julio
Antonio Ferrer Tamayo, Ángel
Moya Acosta, Carlos Manuel
Figueroa Álvarez, Egberto
Ángel Escobedo Morales, Alexis
Hernández Cañizares, Degnis
González Rodríguez, Jorge Luis
García Pérez, Raúl Borges Álvarez,
Ignacio González Vidal, Rolando
Reyes Rabanal, Nelson Pascual
Rodríguez, Máximo Rodríguez
Paseiro, Claudio Fuentes, Lázaro
Fresneda Fernández, Agustín López
Canino, Pedro Fontanar Miranda,
Víctor Marcos Valdés Sandido,
Detained 6-8 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass
Bertha Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 13
Tania Bruguera
(Different organizations)
07/12/15 La Habana Lismeiris Quintana Ávila, Norma
Cruz
Casas, Mayelín Santiesteban López,
Eralidis Frómeta Polanco, Danaisis
Muñóz López, Eugenia Díaz
Hernández, Maiden Maidique Cruz,
Mirtha Ricardo Tornet, Olayda del
Castillo Trujillo,Caridad Ramírez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6-8 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass
Bertha Soler
Fernández
07/12/15 La Habana Bertha Soler Fernández, Zodrelis
Turruella Poncio, María Cristina
Labrada Varona, Anay Penalba
Subit, Joisy Jaramillo Sánchez,
Kirenia Díaz Argüelles, Daisis
Artiles del Sol, Yamilet Naranjo
Figueredo, Dellice
González Dorrego, Xiomara de las
Mercedes Cruz Miranda, Roxilene
Sotolongo Cruz, Virgen Coello
Basulto, Julia Herrera Roque,
Margarita Barbena Calderín, Lisset
Naranjo Girón, Ada María López
Canino, Yamilé Bargés Hurtado,
Yaquelín Boni Hechevarría,
Adelma Guerra Ricardo, Ivón
Moralobos Melo, Deisy Coello
Basulto, Tamara Rodríguez
Quesada, Cecilia Guerra
Alfonso, Zenaida Hidalgo Cedeño,
Dayane Ortiz Hernández, Aliuska
Gómez García, Ivón Lemus
Detained 6-8 hours for protesting
and demanding freedom of all
political prisoners and respect for
human rights.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 14
Fonseca, Mirenia Henry García,
Milvia Narcisa Aguilera Lanz,
Yolanda Santana Ayala, Mayelín
Peña Bullan, María de
los Ángeles Rojas Pereira, Arelis
Blanco Coello, María Josefa Acón
Sardiña, Igdaris Yamina Pérez
Ponciano, Adisnidia Dallet
Urgüelles, Lucinda González G
(Damas de Blanco)
07/13/15 Manicaragua,
Villa Clara
José Leyva Díaz
(Frente Resistencia Cívica OZT)
Detained 6 hours for protesting in
public and demand freedom for all
political prisoners and respect for
human rights.
Manolo Sarduy
07/14/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Juan Alberto de la Nuez Ramírez
(Movimiento Ciudadano Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 3 hours by political
police, accused of being a
delinquent and threatened with
prison time.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/14/15 Santa Clara Villa
Clara
Yusel García Álvarez,Yoel Bravo
(Frente Resistencia Cívica OZT)
Detained 3 hours by political
police because of his involvement
in dissident activities.
Manolo Sarduy
07/15/15 Guantánamo Francisco Manzanet Ortíz
(Movimiento Reconciliación y Paz
Juan Pablo)
Detained 24 hours by political
police for peacefully protesting in
public.
Arturo Acosta
07/15/15 Guantánamo Niober García Fournier, Damián
Rodríguez Mejías, Ramón Olivares
Abello, Yanelis Salazar Toledano
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 72 hours by political
police for handing out pamphlets
on the street.
Arturo Acosta
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 15
07/16/15 San Miguel del
Padrón, La
Habana
Yanisel Boza Garrido, Yaneisy
Herrera Cabrales, Yurineisy
Alemán Ferrera, Yunieski Gainza,
Raisel Rivero Rodríguez, Lázaro
Yosvany Montesinos Hernández,
Ariosbel Castillo Villalba, Yoelkis
Boza Garrido, Ronny Games Luna,
Kessell Rodríguez Rodríguez,
Yordanka Weelk Balquineris,
Carlos Manuel Hernández Jiménez
(Comisión de ayuda presos
políticos y familiares)
Detained 4-14 hours by political
police as a punishment for prevent
an act of repudiation to take place
outside the house of a dissident.
Yanisel Boza Garrido
07/16/15 San Miguel del
Padrón, La
Habana
Isaura Weelk Balquineris
(Comisión de ayuda presos
políticos y familiares)
Suffered an act of repudiation in
front of her house.
Yanisel Boza Garrido
07/16/15 La Habana Reinaldo Rodríguez Hernández
(Frente Acción Cívica OZT)
Detained 72 hours by political
police on his way to visit a
dissident that was detained.
Hugo Damián Prieto
Blanco
07/16/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Yoel Hernández Jiménez, Luis
Dionisio Rodríguez León
(Coalición Central Opositora)
Detained 1 hour by political police
and questioned about anti-
government posters.
Damaris Moya
Portielles
07/17/15 Placetas, Santa
Clara
Jorge Luís García Pérez, Iris Tamara
Pérez Aguilera
(Frente Resistencia Cívica OZT)
Suffered an act of repudiation for
solidarizing with the Ladies in
White.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/17/15 Trinidad, Sancti
Spítitus
Manuel González González
(Confederación de Trabajadores
Independientes de Cuba)
Detained 2 hours by political
police because of his involvement
in dissident activities.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 16
07/17/15 Villa Clara Joel Vázquez Ruíz
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión y
Reconciliación)
Detained 16 hours by political
police for peacefully protesting in
public.
Manolo Sarduy
07/18/15 Trinidad, Sancti
Spítitus
Osvaldo Arcis Hernández
(Confederación de Trabajadores
Independientes de Cuba)
Detained 2 hours by political
police and threatened with being
jailed if he persists with his
dissident activities.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/19/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Yabel Ramírez Peña, Daney
Miranda Díaz, Juan Carlos Villegas
Amador, Caridad Herminia
Quiñones López, Cirilo Quiñones
López, Bárbaro de la
Nuez Ramírez, Yamil Menéndez,
Jose Alberto Castro Rodríguez,
Orlendy García Espino
(Movimiento Ciudadano Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Suffered an act of repudiation for
2 hours as a punishment for their
involvement in dissident activities.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/19/15 San Antonio de
los Baños,
Mayabeque
Daniel Alfaro Frías
(Frente de Acción Cívica OZT)
His home was searched by the
police under the pretext of Daniel
holding illegal propaganda against
the government.
Hugo Damián Prieto
Blanco
07/19/15 La Habana Lázaro Mendoza García, Luís
Andrés Domínguez Sardiñas,
Andrés Abelino Domínguez
Beltrán, Ricardo Luna
Rodríguez, Liván Gómez Castillo,
Francisco García Punier, Reinier
Wilson Caballeros, Lázaro José de
la Noval Usín, Hugo Damián Prieto
Blanco, Enrique López Torres,
Vladimir Turró Páez, Leudis Reyes
Detained by the political police
and taken to different police units
to prevent them from attending
Sunday mass.
Hugo Damián Prieto
Blanco
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 17
Cuza y José Antonio Pompa López
(Frente Acción Cívica OZT)
07/19/15 Holguín Daimaris Morales Piña, Gliseris
Piña González
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
07/19/15 La Habana Mayelín Peña Bullan, María Rosa
Rodríguez Molina, Mirtha Ricardo
Tornet, Olayda del Castillo Trujillo,
Caridad Ramírez Utria, Haydee
Gallardo Salazar
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler Fernández
07/19/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Miladis Espinosa Díaz, Yaima Ulloa de la Torre, Niurbis de la Rosa Hernández (Damas de Blanco)
Detained 3 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler Fernández
07/19/15 Guantánamo Esther Carroman Candon, Yurima
Pérez, Mariuska López Roja (Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
07/19/15 La Habana Hugo Damián Prieto Blanco, Lázaro
Mendoza García, Leudis Reyes Cuza,
Andrés Avelino Domínguez Beltrán,
Vladimir Turró Páez, José Antonio
Pompa López, Luis Enrique López
Torres, Luis Andrés Domínguez
Sardiñas, Reinor Figueredo Gallardo,
Ricardo Luna Rodríguez, Francisco
García Puniel, Liván Gómez Castillo,
Lázaro José de la Noval Usin, Ángel
Figueredo Castellano, Reinier
Figueredo Gallardo, Degnis Miguel
Detained 6 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 18
González, Daniel Alfaro Frías, Lázaro
Yuri Valle Roca, Reinier Wilson
Castellano, Osvaldo Moralobos, René
Ricardo, Yegar Manuel Velázquez
Licea, Luis Mario Mugueira Moreira,
Behikis Ordóñez Quilate, Heriberto,
Sandalio Mejías Zulueta
(Different organizations)
07/19/15 La Habana Bertha Soler Fernández, Zodreli
Turruella Poncio, María Cristina
Labrada Varona, Rosalina Visiedo
Gómez, Lismeiris Quintana Ávila,
Eugenia Díaz Hernández, Daisis
Artiles del Sol, Yamile Naranjo
Figueredo, Martha Belkis
González, Yamilé Garro Alfonso,
Roxilene Sotolongo Cruz, Virgen
Cuello Basulto, Julia Herrera,
Margarita Barbena Calderín,
Soraya Milanés Guerra, Ada María
López Canino, Nieves Caridad
Matamoros,Yaquelín Boni
Hechevarría, Danaisis Muñóz López,
Ivón Moralobos Melo, Deisy Cuello
Basulto, Lázara Gleisys Acosta
Toscano, Cecilia Guerra Alfonso, Iris
Llerandi Kindelán, Dayane Ortiz
Hernández, Aliuska Gómez García,
Ivón Lemus Fonseca, Mirenia Henry
García, Arelis Blanco Cuello, María
Josefa Acón Sardiña, Igdaris Yamina
Pérez Ponciano, Adisnidia Dallet
Urgüelles, Lucinda González Gómez,
Sarahí Pérez Pedroso, María Cristina
Hernández Gavilán, María Milián
Detained 6 hours by the political
police for peacefully demanding
freedom for all political prisoners
and in favor of human rights.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 19
Perdomo, Gladys Capote Roque y Ivón
de las Mercedes Lazo Abreu (Damas de Blanco)
07/19/15 La Habana José Díaz Silva, Servilio Villegas
Marrero, José Antonio Moreira
Laffita,
Ciro Alexis Casanova Pérez, Mario
Alberto Hernández Leyva, Pavel
Herrera Hernández, Miguel Alberto
Ulloa Ginard, Ángel Moya Acosta,
Iván Fernández Depreste, Egberto
Ángel Escobedo Morales, Alexis
Hernández Cañizales, Maribel
Hernández Gil, Jorge Luis García
Pérez, Dayane Estrada Marcos,
Edelvis Granda Pérez, Rolando
Reyes Rabanal, Gorki Águila,
Miguel Borroto, Claudio
Fuentes, Antonio González Rodiles,
Agustín López Canino, Osvaldo
Mendoza Ferrio, Ailer González,
Francisco Javier Alce Abreu,
Humberto Viel Marín, Saqueo Páez
Guerrero, Laritza Cabrera Calistre,
Yaima Castelló Soler, Maidelys
Herrera, Ariel González Cueva
(Different organizations)
Detained 6 hours by political
police for solidarizing with the
Ladies in White during mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
07/20/15 Villa Clara Joel Bravo López
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained 24 hours by political
police because of his dissident
activities.
Manolo Sarduy
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 20
07/22/15 Cárdenas,
Matanzas
Eduardo Pacheco Ortíz
(Partido por la Democracia Pedro
Luís Boitel)
Detained by political police and
questioned about his involvement
with dissidents.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/23/15 Las Cañas,
Artemisa
Martha Sánchez González
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 1 hour by political police
and threatened because she is
presumed to have done graffiti on
public streets.
Yuniel Blanco
Fernández
07/23/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Damaris Moya Portilles
(Coalición Central Opositora)
Detained 5 hours by political
police. She was beat, and offended
with racists jokes by police agents.
Damaris Moya
Portilles
07/25/15 Autopista de
Pinar del Río
José Díaz Silva, Mario Alberto
Hernández Leiva
(Movimiento de Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent him from
meeting with other dissidents.
José Díaz Silva
07/25/15 Habana Vieja, La
Habana
Serafín Morán Santer, Miguel
López Santer, Lázaro Kessell
Barruecos, Dennis Miguel
González Rodríguez,
Carlos Manuel Figueroa Álvarez
(Movimiento de Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 5-8 hours for
participating in a meeting of their
dissident organization.
José Díaz Silva
07/25/15 Cuatro Caminos,
La Habana
Carlos Manuel Figueroa Álvarez
(Movimiento de Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 15 hours by political
police for being a dissident.
Carlos Manuel
Figueroa
07/25/15 La Lisa, La
Habana
Luis Enrique Labrador Díaz,
Walfrido Rodríguez Piloto
(La Fuerza de la Verdad)
Detained 6-20 hours for being
suspects of hanging anti-
government posters.
Juan Goberna
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 21
07/26/15 Cárdenas,
Matanzas
Cira Vega de la Fé, Odalys
Hernández , Katiuska Rodríguez
Rivero, Leticia Ramos Herrería,
Amanda Rosa Herrería Rodríguez,
Hortensia Alfonso, Yamira
Senda Ruiz
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 1 hour by political police
for attending Sunday mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/26/15 La Habana Yurimeisy Alemán Ferrer, Yaneisy
Herrera Cabrales, Yunieski Gainza
Acosta, Rebeca Rojas Ullán,
Yanisel Boza Garrido, Yoelvis
Boza Garrido, Ronny Gómez Luna,
Ariobel Castillo, Ariobel Castillo
(Movimiento Luchadores por la
Libertad)
Detained 28 hours by political
police for writing on a bed sheet
messages demanding respect for
human rights and protesting with
it.
Yanisel Boza Garrido
07/26/15 Palma Soriano,
Santiago de Cuba
María Luisa Rodríguez Portales,
Deilenis Rosabal Acosta,
Yanisleidys Peralta Álvarez,
Eduviges Isaac Rodríguez, Marielis
Manzano Carballo, María Lina
Perdomo Durán, Yuneisis Amaya
Arias, Olga Lidia La O Figueredo,
Yanet Figueredo Cruz, Elia Letsi
Isaac Reyes, Onelis Calderín
Alvarado, Martha Onelvis Mendoza
Díaz y Denia Fernández Rey
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Denia Fernández Rey
Garrido
07/26/15 Holguín Maylin Ricardo Góngora,Daimaris
Morales Piña
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acost
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 22
07/26/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Olga Relova Vega, Yaima Ulloa de
la Torre, Niurbis de la Rosa
Hernández,Yudania Rodríguez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
07/26/15 La Habana Oylín Hernández, MaríaRosa
Molina, Mirtha Ricardo Tornet,
Olayda del Castillo Trujillo,
Caridad Ramírez Utria, Maylen
González González, Mayelín
Santiesteban López, Martha Belkis,
Sarahí Pérez, Mirenia Henry García
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
07/26/15 La Habana José Díaz Silva, Mario Alberto
Hernández, Leudis Reyes Cuza,
Andrés Avelino Domínguez
Beltrán, Henry Rey Rodríguez, José
Antonio Pompa López, Luis
Enrique López Torres, Luis Andrés
Domínguez Sardiñas, José Laffita
Moreira, Ricardo Luna Rodríguez,
Francisco García Puniel, Servilio
Villegas Marrero, Lázaro José de la
Noval, Sandalio Mejías Zulueta
Agustín López Canino, Juan Lamas
Martínez, Daniel Alfaro Frías,
Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca,
Reinaldo Rodríguez Hernández,
Osvaldo Moralobos, Zaqueo Báez
Guerrero, Carlos Manuel Figueroa,
Behikis Ordóñez Quilate, Heriberto
Pons, Seiler Córdova Estrada,
Wilberto Parada Milán, Roberto
Hernández Barrios, Nilfre de la
Detained 6-8 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 23
Caridad Reyes, Amed Santiago
Hernández, Yaquelin Herrera
Morales, Yasmani Barroso
(Different organizations)
07/26/15 La Habana Bertha Soler Fernández, Zodrelis
Turruella Poncio, María Cristina
Labrada, Xiomara de las Mercedes
Cruz Miranda, Lismeiris Quintana
Ávila, Joisi Jaramillo Sánchez,
Daisi Artiles del Sol, Yamile
Naranjo Figueredo, Zenaida
Hidalgo Cedeño,
Yamilé Garro Alfonso, Roxilene
Sotolongo Cruz, Dellice González
Dorrego, Julia Herrera Roque,
Adelma Guerra Ricardo, Lázara
María Dorrego Guzmán, Ada María
López Canino, Nieves Caridad
Matamoros González,
Yaquelín Boni Hechevarria, Anai
Penalba Subit, Ivón Moralobos
Melo, Milvia Narcisa Aguilera
Lanz, Lázara Gleisys Acosta,
Cecilia Guerra Alfonso, Iris
Llerandi Kindelán, Dayane Ortíz
Hernández, Aliuska Gómez García,
Ivón Lemus Fonseca, Kirenia Díaz
Argüelles, Arelis Blanco Cuello,
María Josefa Acón Sardiñas,
Haydee Gallardo Salazar, Virgen
Cuello Basulto, Lucinda González,
Gómez, Mayelín Peña Bullán,
María Caridad Hernández, María
Detained 6-8 hours by political
police for holding their Sunday
peaceful march demanding
freedom for all political prisoners
and respect for human rights.
Some were physically hurt.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 24
Milián Perdomo, Gladys Capote
Roque, Ivón de las Mercedes Lazo,
Alina de la Caridad García, Deisi
Cuello Basulto
(Damas de Blanco)
07/26/15 La Habana Hugo Damián Prieto Blanco,
Lázaro
Mendoza García, Miguel Guerra
Hastié, Nelson Pascual Rodríguez,
Ángel Luis Díaz Ferao, Pavel
Herrera
Hernández, Raúl Borges Álvarez,
Ángel Moya Acosta, Egberto
Escobedo Morales, Luis Mario
Muguelcia, Yoandra Seiva Morales,
Ariel González Cuevas, Manuel
Velázquez Licea, Carlos Tamayo
Frías, Rolando Reyes Rabanal,
Ángel Figueredo Castellón, Claudio
fuentes, Antonio González Rodiles,
Osvaldo Mendoza Ferriol, Ailer
González Mena, Humberto Viel
Marín, Zaqueo Báez Guerrero
(Different organizations)
Detained 6-8 hours by political
police for solidarizing with the
Ladies in White during mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
07/27/15 Parque Central,
La Habana
Reinier Rodríguez Mendoza
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained because of his dissident
activities.
Arcelio Molina
07/28/15 La Habana Sarahí Pérez Pedroso, Reinaldo
Rodríguez Hernández
(Frente de Acción Cívica OZT)
Detained 1 hour by political police
as a punishment for demanding
information about his detained
friends.
Hugo Damián Prieto
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 25
07/28/15 Centro Habana,
La Habana
José Antonio Pompa, Leudis Reyes
(Frente de Acción Cívica OZT)
Detained 8 hours by political
police because of their dissident
activities.
Hugo Damián Prieto
07/28/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Guillermo Fariñas Hernández,
Rolando Ferrer Espinosa, Jorge
Artíles Montier, Omar Núñez
Espinosa, Dayamí Villavicencio
Hernández, José Lino Asencio
(Foro Antitotalitario Unido)
Detained 2-8 hours by political
police for protesting outside the
municipal office of the
Department of Health.
Ramón Jiménez
Arencibia
07/29/15 Ciego de Ávila Roberto Valdivia Hernández
(Partido 30 de Noviembre Frank
País)
Detained 18 hours by the political
police.
Roberto Valdivia
07/30/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros
Cienfuegos
Emilio García Moreira
(Movimiento Ciudadanos Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 2 hours by political
police because of his dissident
activities.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
07/30/15 Habana Vieja, La
Habana
Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, Yasel
Rivero Boni
(Periodistas Independientes)
Detained by political police for 5
hours for taking pictures of a
fallen wall.
Lázaro Yuri Valle
Roca
@ICCAS_UM
http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/
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Violations of Human Rights in Cuba
August, 2015
The following report compiles information of Cubans arbitrarily arrested and/or detained, harassed, attacked, and faced acts of
repudiation* by the Cuban government in the month of August, 2015. This information is based on the monthly report published by
the Comisión Cubana de Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional (Cuban NGO specializing in Human Rights as well as other
sources in the island).
*Acts of Repudiation are physical and/or verbal aggression mobs organized by State Security (Cuba’s political police).
At least 768 arrests for political reasons in July.
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Date Incident Location
Victims Incident Type Source of
Information
08/02/15
Centro Habana, La
Habana Rosario Morales la Rosa, Leonor
Reinot Borges, Zahíra Castro
Casals, Margarita Díaz Rodríguez,
Anai Porro Cutiño, Luz Marina
Parada Licea, Crispina Duquezne
Suárez, Raquel Castillo Urquiza,
Melkis Faure Hechavarría,
Moraima Rodríguez Batista,
Zulema Laís Sangrioni, Nancy
Ramona Zamora Paz, Lidia Esther
Romeu Rojas, Mercedes González
Herrera, Yanelis Ferra Hernández,
Yohana de la Cruz García
(Movimiento Damas de Blanco
Laura Pollán)
Detained 6 hours by political
police for attending Sunday mass.
Rosario Morales La
Rosa
08/02/15 Holguín Mailin Ricardo Góngora, Ana Iris
Miranda Leiva, Darelis Pupo
Blanco, Niurka Cruz Cruz
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
08/02/15 Bayamo Ivania Rodríguez, Xiomara Montes
de Oca Mediacejas
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
08/02/15 La Habana Lázaro Yuri Vall, Eralidis Frómeta
Polanco
(Dama de Blanco y Periodista
Independiente)
Harassed 8 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Lázaro Yuri Valle
Roca
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 28
08/02/15 La Habana Oylín Hernández Rodríguez, María
Rosa Rodríguez Molina, Bárbara
Aguilar García, Eralidis Frómeta
Polanco, Mayelín Peña Bullan, Ada
María López Canino
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 1-5 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
08/02/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Niurbis de la Rosa Hernández,
Yaima Ulloa de la Torre, Olga
Reloba Vega
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 1-5 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
08/02/15 La Habana José Díaz Silva, Mario Alberto
Hernández, Leudis Reyes Cuza,
Andrés Avelino Domínguez, Henri
Rey Rodríguez, José Antonio
Pompa López, Luis Enrique López
Torres, Luis Andrés Domínguez,
Hugo Damián Prieto Blanco,
Ricardo Luna Rodríguez, Francisco
García Puniel, Juan González
Febles, Rolando Reyes Rabanal,
Rubén Darío García Artes, Agustín
López Canino, Juan Lamas
Martínez, Daniel Alfaro Frías,
Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, Reinaldo
Rodríguez Hernández, Ángel
Figueredo Castellón, Zaqueo Báez
Guerrero, Nenys Miguel
Hernández, Nelson González
Bernia, Vladimir Turró Páez,
Lázaro Mendoza García, Pavel
Herrera Hernández , Liván Gómez
(Different organizations)
Detained 6-7 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 29
08/02/15 La Habana Lázaro de la Noval Usin, Máximo
Rodríguez Pasiero, Eugenio
Hernández Hernández, Sergio
Maikel Dupón Prieto, Wilberto
Parada Milán, Miguel Borroto,
Raúl Borges Álvarez, Ángel Moya
Acosta, Servilio Villegas Marrero,
Egberto Escobedo Morales, Rodny
Gómez Luna, Rebeca Roja Ullan,
Ariel González Cuevas, Yoeldis
Bouza Garrido, Lía Villares,
Osvaldo Mendoza Ferriol y Alexis
Pérez Lezcano
(Different Organizations)
Detained 6-7 hours by political
police for solidarizing with the
Ladies in White during Sunday
mass.
Bertha Soler Fernández
08/02/15 La Habana Bertha Soler Fernández, Zodrelis
Turruella Poncio, María Cristina
Labrada Varona, Xiomara de las
Mercedes Cruz, Lismeiris Quintana
Ávila, Joisi Jaramillo Sánchez,
Daisi Artiles del Sol, Yamilé
Naranjo Figueredo, Zenaida
Hidalgo Cedeño, Yamilé Garro
Alfonso, Roxilene Sotolongo Cruz,
Martha Belkis Rodríguez, Julia
Herrera Roque, Yamilé Barges
Hurtado, Daisy Coello Basulto,
Maylen González González, Nieves
Caridad Matamoros, YaquelínBoni
Hechevarría, AnayPenalbaSubit,
Ivón Moralobos Melo, Milvia
Narcisa Aguilera, Danaisys Munóz
López, Cecilia Guerra Alfonso,
Mayelín Santiesteban López,
Detained 6-7 hours by political
police for peacefully protesting
and demanding freedom for all
political prisoners and respect for
human rights.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 30
Eugenia Díaz Hernández, Aliuska
Gómez García, Ivón Lemus,
Fonseca, Kirenia Díaz Argüelles,
Arelis Blanco Coello, María Josefa
Acón Sardiña, Haydee Gallardo
Salazar, Virgen Coello Basulto,
Lucinda González Gómez, Mirtha
Ricardo Tornet, María Cristina
Hernández, Soraya Milanés Guerra,
Gladys Capote Roque, Ivón de las
Mercedes Alina de la Caridad Lanz
(Damas de Blanco)
08/03/15 Habana Vieja, La
Habana
Lázaro Rolando Kessell Barruecos,
Julio Antonio Ferrer Tamayo
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 1 hour by political police
for taking pictures of a partially
collapsed home.
Carlos Manuel Figueroa
08/05/15 Alamar, La Habana Maikel Díaz Roque, Ivón Lascaiba Hernández
(Impacto Juvenil – PRC)
Suffered an act of repudiation for
hanging posters on the balcony
with pro-human rights messages.
Maikel Díaz Roque
08/05/15 Pinar del Río Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
(Periodista Independiente) Detained 3 hours by political
police for handing out brochures
of Panorama Pinareño.
Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
08/05/15 Centro Habana, La
Habana
Carlos Manuel Figueroa Álvarez, Sandalio Mejías Zulueta, Mario
Alberto Hernández Leiva, Osvaldo Mendoza Ferrer, Yoandry Echevarría
(Movimiento Opositores por una Nueva República)
Detained 2-8-33 hours for handing
out flyers demanding freedom for
all Cubans.
José Díaz Silva
08/06/15 Habana del Este, La
Habana
Maikel Díaz Roque, Miguel Alberto
Ulloa Ginart, Ernesto Tamayo
(Impacto Juvenil – PRC)
Detained 2-81 hours for their pro-
freedom activities.
Ernesto Tamayo
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 31
08/06/15 Aguada de Pasajeros, Cienfuegos
Dany Miranda Gil
(Movimiento Ciudadano Reflexión y
Reconciliación)
Detained 29 hours by political
police and threatened.
Iván Hernández Carillo
08/06/15 Pinar del Rio Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
(Instituto Cubano por la Libertad de
Expresión y Prensa)
Detained and questioned for 2
hours by the political police.
Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
08/07/15 La Habana Raúl Borges Álvarez, Yamilé Borges
Hurtado
(Partido Democrático Cubano –
Dama de Blanco)
Detained by the political police at
the airport to prevent them from
welcoming the dissidents that were
arriving from the US.
Raúl Borges Álvarez
08/07/15 La Habana José Díaz Silva, Mario Alberto
Hernández Leiva, Denny Miguel
González García, Humberto Viel
Marín, Sandalio Mejías Zulueta,
Osvaldo Mendoza Ferrior, Reinaldo
Abreu Alfonso
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 6-96 hours by the
political police to prevent them
from welcoming the dissidents that
were arriving from the US.
José Díaz Silva
08/07/15 Boyeros, La
Habana
Eduardo Ramos Balaguer, Augusto
Guerra Márquez ,Ubaldo Herrera
Lázaro Julián García, Osvaldo
Moralobos Labrada, Israel Reyes
Montero, Yosvani Martínez Lemus,
Idania González Yáñez, Ramón
Mora Hernández, Concepción
Hernández Barbón, René Ricardo
Valdés, Lazara Santos, Rolando
Yuset Pérez Morera, Guillermo
Rodríguez Cárdenas, Emilio
Rodríguez Otero, Gladys Capote
Roque, Nieves de la Caridad
Matamoros, Jimmy Enrique Torres,
Detained by political police and
driven miles away from the city to
prevent them from attending a
meeting.
Agustín Figueroa
Galindo
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Miguel Ángel Tirador, Niola
Camila Araujo, Ángel Fleites
(Partido Unión por Cuba Libre)
08/07/15 Centro Habana, La
Habana
María Nélida López Báez
(Federación Latinoamericana de
Mujeres Rurales)
Harassed and threatened because
of her activism in favor of human
rights and freedom for all political
prisoners.
Juan Goberna
Hernández
08/08/15 La Habana Rolando Reyes Rabanal
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 18 hours by political
police to prevent him from
attending Sunday mass.
Rolando Reyes
Rabanal
08/08/15 Pinar del Rio Yelkis Puig Rodríguez, Jorge Luis
Romero, Alexis Blanco
(Partido Unión Democrática
Cristiana)
Detained 24 hours by political
police for solidarizing with
FLAMUR in their campaign
against violence.
Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
08/08/15 Trinidad, Sancti
Spíritus
Alexander Isidoro Dueñas Ortega
(Confederación de Trabajadores
Independientes de Cuba)
Detained 31 hours by political
police for being suspect of hanging
pro-dissidence posters.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
08/08/15 Santa Isabel de las
Lajas, Cienfuegos
Eloísa Veloz Becerra, Jorge Luis
Oliver Díaz
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained 2 hours by political
police for protesting in public
against the government.
Manolo Sarduy
08/08/15 Centro Habana, La
Habana
María Nélida López Báez
(Federación latinoamericana de
mujeres rurales)
Harassed and threatened because
of her activism in favor of human
rights and freedom for all political
prisoners.
Arturo Acosta
08/09/15 Holguín Carmen Charpe Fay, Marexy
Lausau Tamayo, Ramón Zamora
(Damas de Blanco and friends)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent her from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
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08/09/15 Bayamo Xiomara Montes de Oca
Mediacejas, Ivania Rodríguez
Rodríguez, Yamilet Aliaga Rivas,
Agueda Molina Vargas, Yoannia
Jorge Medina, Maidelis Medina
Sánchez, Yudisbel Roselló Mojena
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent her from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
08/09/15 Pinar del Rio Yuliet Margarita Rodríguez
(Damas de Blanco) Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Magaly Norvis
08/09/15 La Habana Mirtha Ricardo Tornet, Roxilene
Sotolongo Abreu, Dayanne Ortiz
Hernández, Mayelín Santiesteban ,
Bárbara Aguilar Sardiña, Sarahí
Pérez Pedroso, Maiden Maidique
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Magaly Norvis
08/09/15 La Habana Ariel González Cuevas, Lázaro
Yuri Valle Roca, Agustín López
Canino, José Díaz Silva, Leonit
Carbonel, Luis Enrique López
Torres, Lázaro José de la Noval
Usin, Ricardo Luna, Reinier
Wilson, Daniel Alfaro Frías, Luis
Andrés Avelino Domínguez,
Andrés Avelino Domínguez,
Francisco García Punier, Vladimir
Turró Páez, Lázaro Mendoza
García, Liván Gómez, Hugo
Damián Prieto Blanco y Ramón
Zamora Rodríguez
(Different organizations)
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Magaly Norvis
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08/09/15 La Habana Bertha Soler Fernández , Zodrelis
Turruella Poncio, Xiomara de las
Mercedes Cruz, Joisi Jaramillo
Sánchez, Daisi Artiles del Sol,
Yamilé Naranjo Figueredo, Yamilé
Garro Alfonso, Dellice González
Dorrego, Julia Herrera Roque,
Lázara María Dorrego Guzmán,
Ada María López Canino, Yaquelin
Boni Hechevarría, Anai Penalba
Subit, Cecilia Guerra Alonso ,Ivón
Lemus Fonseca, Kirenia Díaz
Fonseca ,Arelis Blanco Coello,
María Josefa Acón Sardiña ,Virgen
Coello Basulto, María Caridad
Hernández Gavilán, María Milian
Pedroso, Ivón de las Mercedes
Lazo, Alina de la Caridad Lanz
,Deisi Coello Basulto, Margarita
Barbena, Maylen González
González, María Cristina Labrada
Varona, Eugenia Díaz Hernández,
Zenaida Hidalgo, Tamara
Rodríguez, Adelma Guerra
Ricardo, Yamilé Borge, Lismeiris
Quintana Ávila, Lisett, Eralidis
Frómeta Polanco, Aliuska Gómez
García, Yolanda Santana, Yusleidys
Bolero Concepción, Danaisis
Muñoz, Ivón Moralobos Melo
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5 hours and hurt by the
political police for peacefully
marching in favor of human rights
and demanding the freedom of all
political prisoners.
Magaly Norvis
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08/09/15 La Habana Pavel Herrera Hernández, Ángel
Moya Acosta, Mario Alberto,
Alberto Hernández Cañizares, José
Antonio Morera Laffita, Egberto
Escobedo Morales, Miguel Borroto,
Claudio Fuentes Madán, Gorki
Águila Carrasco, Ronny Gómez
Luna, Guillermo García Velázquez,
Bárbaro Alexis Smil Ortega, Lázaro
Kessell Barruecos, Reinaldo
Rodríguez Hernández, Rubén Darío
García, Boris González Arena,
Ailer María González, Leudis
Reyes Cuza, José Antonio Pompa
López, Juan Lamas Martínez, Raúl
Borges Álvarez, Rebeca Rojas
Ullán, Yenisel Bouza, Yunieski
Gainza Acosta, Yurineisis Alemán
Ferrera, Camilo Ernesto Olivera,
Pedro Fontanar, Ariel Castillo
Soler, Ángel Santiesteban Prats,
Grisel Rivero Boza, Roberto
Hernández Barrio, Lisandra
Zamadrit Godínez, Jorge Luis
(Different organizations)
Detained 5 hours by political
police as a punishment for
solidarizing with the Ladies in
White during Sunday mass.
Magalis Norvis
08/09/15 Centro
Habana, La Habana
María Nélida López Báez
(Federación Latinoamericana de
Mujeres Rurales-FLAMUR)
Harassed and threatened because
of her involvement with dissidents
and her activism.
Juan Goberna
Hernández
08/10/15 Manicaragua, Villa
Clara
José Leyva Díaz
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión) Detained 3 hours by political
police for demanding the freedom
for a dissident.
Manolo Sarduy
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08/10/15 Camagüey Vladimir Osorio, Conrado Galindo
(Instituto Cubano por la Libertad
de Expresión y Prensa)
Detained 5 days by the political
police under espionage
accusations.
Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
08/11/15 Virgen del Camino,
La Habana
Juan Lamas Martínez
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 4 hours by political
police because of his activism.
Juan Lamas Martínez
08/12/15 Habana Vieja, La
Habana
Yoandry Echevarría Mejía,
Mileidis Torres Concepción
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República y Ciudadana)
Detained 26 hours by political
police for filming an anti-
government protest on the street.
Yoandry Echevarría
Mejías, Sandalio
Mejías Zulueta
08/13/15 San Antonio de los
Baños, Artemisa
Daniel Alfaro Frías
(Frente de Acción Cívica OZT)
Detained 12 hours by agents for
being a suspect of hanging anti-
government posters on public
streets.
Hugo Damián Prieto
08/13/15 Parque Central, La
Habana
Carlos Manuel Figueroa Álvarez
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 33 hours for being a
suspect of anti-government
activities on the birthday of
General Fidel Castro.
Carlos Manuel
Figueroa
08/13/15 Parque Central, La
Habana
Serafín Mora Santiago, Silverio
Portal Contreras
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Harassed by political police for
holding pro-freedom activities on
General Fidel Castro’s birthday.
Serafín Mora
Santiago, Silverio
Portal Contreras
08/13/15 Habana Vieja, La
Habana
Roberto Hernández Barrios,
Wilberto Parada Milán
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 13 hours by political
police for holding pro-freedom
activities on General Fidel
Castro’s birthday.
Roberto Hernández
Barrios
08/13/15 Santa Cruz del Sur,
Camagüey
Emilio Rivera Suárez, Guillermo
Rodríguez Rodríguez
(Partido Independiente
Democrático Cubano)
Detained 4 hours by political
police because of their pro-
freedom activism.
Fernando Vázquez
Guerra
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08/14/15 Habana Vieja, La
Habana
Roberto Hernández Barrios,
Wilberto Parada Milán
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Harassed and threatened if they
left their home to protest against
the opening of the American
embassy in Cuba.
Roberto Hernández
Barrios
08/14/15 Habana Vieja, La
Habana
Yasser Rivero Boni, Vicente
Rodríguez Hernández
(Activistas Independientes)
Suffered an act of repudiation and
later were detained 2-5 hours by
the political police for being a
public threat on the day of John
Kerry’s trip around the area.
Yaquelín Boni
08/16/15 Guantánamo Bartolo Cantillo Romero, Manuel
de Jesús Albera Odelin, Marco
Antonio Morán Pelegrin, Gastón
Góngora Torres, Santiago Cutiño
Aguilera, Henry Couto Guzmán,
Roelvis Cuba Sendó, Yohandri
Beltrán Gamboa, Redesneldo
Sánchez López, Johannes Arce
Sarmiento, Alexis Aguilar Silveira
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 8 hours by political
police for peacefully protesting at
a public street in Havana.
Arturo Acosta
08/16/15 Santiago de Cuba Iriades Fernández Aguilera, Ovidio
Martin Castellanos, Wilber
Fernández Cuza, Bárbaro Rensoler
Verdecia, Fernando Vázquez
Guerra, Dorico Alexander Sánchez,
Onel Nápoles Fernández, Roberto
González Feria, Lorenzo Malezú
Isaac, David Fernández Cardoso,
Evelio Fernández Salazar, Goarth
Cruz Zamora, Eduardo Fernández
Cardoso, Leonel Rodríguez Díaz,
Yoel Fernández Cardoso, Luis
Edwin Ramos, Ricardo Guzmán
Calzado, Evangelino Rodríguez
Detained 6-8 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 38
Salcedo, Pedro Martínez Macaut,
Omar Sayut Saquechel, Emislo
Moran Sánchez, Carlos Oliva
Riberí, Edonis Garcés Rodríguez,
Zenaida Ramos Santana, Magalis
Riva flecha, Ernesto Oliva Torres,
Ricardo Jiménez Sánchez, Miraida
Martin Calderín, Lisandra Robert
Salazar, Ernesto Riberí Gascón,
Yusmila Miranda, Alexis
Rodríguez, Chacón, Reinaldo
Martínez Sonet, Jesús Sánchez
Romero, Alexei Pécora Rabel,
Esmeralda Cabrera Puente, Lázaro
Romero Hurtado, Alexei Vargas
Martín, Diango Vargas Martín,
Biango Vargas Martín, Miraida
Calá, Héctor Velázquez Gómez,
José Núñez Paumier, Alí Rodríguez
Ramos, Lisandra Riberas
Rodríguez, Doraisa Correoso Pozo,
Yordenia Preval Hierrezuelo,
Maikol Mediacejas Ramos,
Yordanis Chávez Roll, Jesús
Duputei Ferrer, David Cisneros
Castellanos, Evelio Sánchez
Labrada, Fernando González
Vaillant, Samuel Leblanc Pavón,
Yander Martínez Sánchez, Aníbal
Ribeaux Noa, Franklin Álvarez
Fernández, Lázaro Chacón, Alexis
Martínez Vaillant, Andy Prada
Ortega, Yamilet Sánchez
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Rodríguez, José Castillo Ríos,
Rafael Molina Rodríguez
(Different organizations)
08/16/15 Palma Soriano,
Santiago de Cuba
Yordanka Montalbán, Yohandri
Benítez Guazo, Isolina Reyes
Consuegra, Elina Isaac Luna, Onay
Vázquez Aranda, Yanet Díaz
Santiago, Roberto Ayala Galindo,
Yordanis Munóz Guerrero, Anelis
Cutiño Galán, Gilberto Hernández
la O, Roberto Almaguer González,
José Enrique Álvarez Santiago,
Equizander Benítez Moya, Luis
Manuel Medina, Guerra, Yaniset
Reina Reyes, Mercedes Moya
Isaac, Rosa María Santana, Yaima
Dinza Rodríguez, Ramón Frank
Díaz, Mariolvis Delgado Romero,
Pedro Campa Almenares, Víctor
Campa Almenares, Enmanuel
Colón, José Antonio Blanco Ruiz,
Rulizán Ramírez Rodríguez,
Yoannis Isaguirre Hernández,
Ovidio Martínez, Laudelino
Martínez Mendoza, Daineris Moya
García, Alexei Serrano Ávila,
Yusmari García Rusindo,
Yulixander Calderín Alvarado,
Lázaro Ramos Alcántara
(Different organizations)
Detained 6-8 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
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08/16/15 Julio Antonio
Mella, Santiago de
Cuba
Oria Casanova Marrero, Yoanna
Quesada Masalobo, Yasmani
Magaña Díaz, Roberto Perdomo
Fuentes, Abraham Cabrera Torres,
Maidolis Oliva Perdomo, Graciela
Domínguez Girón, Rubén Alvarado
Reyes, Moraima Díaz Pérez,
Mileidis Maceo Quiñones, Manuel
Pérez Suárez, Kenia Ramos Suárez,
Rubislandis Ávila, Julio César
Salazar, Amauri Abelenda
Hierrezuelo, Yuselin Ferrera
Espinosa, Roilán Álvarez Rensoler,
Manuel Pérez Suárez, Rubén Torres
Saiz, Alberto Chirino Leyva
(Different organizations)
Detained 6-8 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
08/16/15 Holguín Niurka Cruz Cruz
(Dama de Blanco)
Detained by political police for 4
hours to prevent her from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
08/16/15 La Habana Lázara Bárbara Sendiña Recalde,
Mayelín Peña Bullán, Mirtha
Ricardo Tornet, Matrha Belkis
Rodríguez González, Mayelín
Santiesteban López, Kirenia Díaz
Argüelles, Oylín Hernández
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5-6 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
08/16/15 La Habana Manuel Velázquez Licea, Hugo
Damián Prieto Blanco, Vladimir
Turró Páez, Andrés Avelino
Domínguez Beltrán, Henri Rey
Rodríguez, Luis Mario Muguelcia
Moreira, Luis Enrique López
Detained 5-8 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
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Torres, Pavel Herrera Hernández,
Ariel González Cuevas, Ricardo
Luna Rodríguez, Francisco García
Punier, Servilio Villegas Marrero,
Lázaro José de la Noval Usin,
Reinaldo Rodríguez Hernández,
Agustín López Canino, Lázaro
Mendoza García, Daniel Alfaro
Frías, José Antonio Pompa López,
Liván Gómez Castillo, Ángel
Figueredo Castellón, Reinier
Figueredo Gallardo, Dehiker
Ordóñez Guilarte, Osvaldo
Mendoza Ferriol, Francisco Lázaro
Concepción, Rolando Urgedo, Juan
Lamas Martínez, Alexis Lescayo,
Juan González Febles, Nelson
Pascual Rodríguez, Nelson
González Bernia
(Different organizations)
08/16/15 La Habana Bertha Soler Fernández, Zodrelis
Turruella Poncio, Haydee Gallardo
Salazar, Luisa Toscano Kindelán,
Lismeiris Quintana Ávila, Joisi
Jaramillo Sánchez, Daisi Artiles del
Sol, Yamile Naranjo Figueredo,
Zenaida Hidalgo Cedeño, Yamilé
Garro Alfonso, Nieves Caridad
Matamoros, Milvia Narcisa
Aguilera Lanz, Lucinda González
Gómez, Julia Herrera Roque,
Lázara María Dorrego Guzmán,
Ada María López Canino, Dayanne
Detained 5-6 hours by the political
police for peacefully protesting
and demanding the freedom of all
political prisoners and in favor of
human rights.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
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Ortiz Hernández, Yaquelin Boni
Hechevarria, Anai Penalba Subit,
Gladys Capote Roque, Igdaris
Yaima Ponciano, Olga Lidia Torres
Iglesias, Cecilia Guerra Alfonso,
María de los Ángeles Rojas, Raquel
Rodríguez Morejón, Aliuska
Gómez García, Ivón Lemus
Fonseca, Arelis Blanco Coello,
María Josefa Acón Sardiña, Virgen
Coello Basulto, Yamile Bargés
Hurtado, María Caridad Hernández
Gavilán, Yolanda Santana Ayala,
Deisi Coello Basulto, Mailén
González González, Danaisis
Muñóz López, Eugenia Díaz
(Damas de Blanco)
08/16/15 La Habana Jorge Luis García Pérez, Bárbaro
Alexei Smith Ortega, Lázaro
Fresneda Fernández, Ciro Alexis
Casanova Pérez, Mario
AlbertoHernández Leyva, José
Díaz Silva, Rolando Reyes
Rabanal, Ángel Moya Acosta,
Yurineisis Alemán Ferrer, Luis
Andrés Domínguez Sardiña, Leudis
Reyes Cuza, Lázaro Kessell
Barruecos, Rubén Darío García
Artes, Eugenio Hernández
Hernández, Degnis González
Rodríguez, Liván Serafín Mora,
Claudio Fuentes Madán, Antonio
González Rodiles, Juan Carlos
Detained 5-8 hours by political
police for solidarizing with the
Ladies in White during Sunday
mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
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Velázquez Osoria, Paulo Enrique
Camero, Arturo Rojas, Luis Jesús
Gutiérrez, Roberto Hernández
Barrios, Miguel Borroto Vázquez,
Rodny Gómez, Rebeca Rojas
(Different organizations)
08/16/15 Puerto Padre, Las
Tunas
Alfredo Santana, Yamilé Suárez Mora,
Reinaldo Ortiz Mariaumi Anat, David
Gonzales Pérez, Fernando Peña
(Different organizations)
Detained 6-8 hours by the political
police for solidarizing with those
arbitrarily detained in Havana.
Arturo Acosta
08/18/15 Camagüey Misael Cané Velázquez
(Frente Nacional Resistencia
Cívica OZT)
Detained 2 hours by the political
police after being hurt by an agent.
The police said he was criticizing
the government.
Fernando Vázquez
Guerra
08/18/15 Santa Isabel de las
Lajas, Cienfuegos
Jorge Luis Oliver Díaz
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Physically hurt by the political
police for his involvement in
dissident activities.
Manolo Sarduy
08/19/15 Pinar del Rio Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
(Instituto Cubano por la Libertad
de Expresión y Prensa)
Detained 1 hour by political
police. His ID was confiscated.
Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
08/19/15 Lawton, La Habana Roberto de Jesús Guerra, Elio
Delgado, Magalis Norvis Otero
(Hablemos Press, Dama de Blanco)
Detained 1 hour by political police
as a punishment for his
involvement in dissident activities.
Roberto de Jesús
Guerra Pérez
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08/20/15 Guantánamo Yaremis Rodríguez Matos,
Yorosilaidys Speek Molina,
Serlenis Barroso Rodríguez,
Margiolis Planas Calderin, Eladis
Fabier Durán, Laudelina Caballeros
Chacón, Mareisis Columbié López,
Celina Osoria Claro, Niober García
Founier y Francisco Osoria Claro
(Damas de Blanco and friends)
Detained 6 hours by political
police for supporting the Ladies in
White.
Arturo Acosta
08/20/15 Pinar del Rio Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
(Instituto Cubano por la Libertad
de Expresión y Prensa)
Taken to the police unit and
interrogated for 3 hours about his
meeting in Puerto Rico.
Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
08/20/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Marcelino Abreu Bonora
(Frente de Acción Cívica OZT) Beat by police agents dressed as
civilians who told him they had
orders to beat him up again if he
approached Plaza Ernesto
Guevara.
Marcelino Abreu Bonora
08/20/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Toni Colina Márquez (Movimiento Juventud Despierta)
Detained 2 hours by political
police for peacefully protesting on
the street.
Manolo Sarduy
08/20/15 Cienfuegos Jorge Luis Oliver, Eloísa Velóz
Becerra, Jean Michel Duarte
Vázquez, Lourdes Armenteros
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Held at the police unit for 3 hours
because of their anti-government
activities.
Manolo Sarduy
08/21/15 La Habana Alexis Gómez Rodríguez
(Confederación de Trabajadores
Independientes de Cuba)
Detained 15 hours by the political
police for practicing civil
disobedience on the streets.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
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08/25/15 Cuatro Caminos,
La Habana
Carlos Manuel Figueroa Álvarez
(Movimiento de Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 15 hours by political
police for being a dissident.
08/25/15 La Lisa, La
Habana
Luis Enrique Labrador Díaz,
Walfrido Rodríguez Piloto
(La Fuerza de la Verdad)
Detained 6-20 hours for being
suspects of hanging anti-
government posters.
Juan Goberna
08/26/15 Cárdenas,
Matanzas
Cira Vega de la Fé, Odalys
Hernández , Katiuska Rodríguez
Rivero, Leticia Ramos Herrería,
Amanda Rosa Herrería Rodríguez,
Hortensia Alfonso, Yamira
Senda Ruiz
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 1 hour by political police
for attending Sunday mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
08/26/15 La Habana Yurimeisy Alemán Ferrer, Yaneisy
Herrera Cabrales, Yunieski Gainza
Acosta, Rebeca Rojas Ullán,
Yanisel Boza Garrido, Yoelvis
Boza Garrido, Ronny Gómez Luna,
Ariobel Castillo, Ariobel Castillo
(Movimiento Luchadores por la
Libertad)
Detained 28 hours by political
police for writing on a bed sheet
messages demanding respect for
human rights and protesting with
it.
Yanisel Boza Garrido
08/26/15 Palma Soriano,
Santiago de Cuba
María Luisa Rodríguez Portales,
Deilenis Rosabal Acosta,
Yanisleidys Peralta Álvarez,
Eduviges Isaac Rodríguez, Marielis
Manzano Carballo, María Lina
Perdomo Durán, Yuneisis Amaya
Arias, Olga Lidia La O Figueredo,
Yanet Figueredo Cruz, Elia Letsi
Isaac Reyes, Onelis Calderín
Alvarado, Martha Onelvis Mendoza
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Denia Fernández Rey
Garrido
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Díaz y Denia Fernández Rey
(Damas de Blanco)
08/26/15 Holguín Maylin Ricardo Góngora,Daimaris
Morales Piña
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acost
08/26/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Olga Relova Vega, Yaima Ulloa de
la Torre, Niurbis de la Rosa
Hernández,Yudania Rodríguez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
08/26/15 La Habana Oylín Hernández, MaríaRosa
Molina, Mirtha Ricardo Tornet,
Olayda del Castillo Trujillo,
Caridad Ramírez Utria, Maylen
González González, Mayelín
Santiesteban López, Martha Belkis,
Sarahí Pérez, Mirenia Henry García
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
08/26/15 La Habana José Díaz Silva, Mario Alberto
Hernández, Leudis Reyes Cuza,
Andrés Avelino Domínguez
Beltrán, Henry Rey Rodríguez, José
Antonio Pompa López, Luis
Enrique López Torres, Luis Andrés
Domínguez Sardiñas, José Laffita
Moreira, Ricardo Luna Rodríguez,
Francisco García Puniel, Servilio
Villegas Marrero, Lázaro José de la
Noval, Sandalio Mejías Zulueta
Agustín López Canino, Juan Lamas
Martínez, Daniel Alfaro Frías,
Detained 6-8 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
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Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca,
Reinaldo Rodríguez Hernández,
Osvaldo Moralobos, Zaqueo Báez
Guerrero, Carlos Manuel Figueroa,
Behikis Ordóñez Quilate, Heriberto
Pons, Seiler Córdova Estrada,
Wilberto Parada Milán, Roberto
Hernández Barrios, Nilfre de la
Caridad Reyes, Amed Santiago
Hernández, Yaquelin Herrera
Morales, Yasmani Barroso
(Different organizations)
08/26/15 La Habana Bertha Soler Fernández, Zodrelis
Turruella Poncio, María Cristina
Labrada, Xiomara de las Mercedes
Cruz Miranda, Lismeiris Quintana
Ávila, Joisi Jaramillo Sánchez,
Daisi Artiles del Sol, Yamile
Naranjo Figueredo, Zenaida
Hidalgo Cedeño,
Yamilé Garro Alfonso, Roxilene
Sotolongo Cruz, Dellice González
Dorrego, Julia Herrera Roque,
Adelma Guerra Ricardo, Lázara
María Dorrego Guzmán, Ada María
López Canino, Nieves Caridad
Matamoros González,
Yaquelín Boni Hechevarria, Anai
Penalba Subit, Ivón Moralobos
Melo, Milvia Narcisa Aguilera
Lanz, Lázara Gleisys Acosta,
Cecilia Guerra Alfonso, Iris
Llerandi Kindelán, Dayane Ortíz
Detained 6-8 hours by political
police for holding their Sunday
peaceful march demanding
freedom for all political prisoners
and respect for human rights.
Some were physically hurt.
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Fernández
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Hernández, Aliuska Gómez García,
Ivón Lemus Fonseca, Kirenia Díaz
Argüelles, Arelis Blanco Cuello,
María Josefa Acón Sardiñas,
Haydee Gallardo Salazar, Virgen
Cuello Basulto, Lucinda González,
Gómez, Mayelín Peña Bullán,
María Caridad Hernández, María
Milián Perdomo, Gladys Capote
Roque, Ivón de las Mercedes Lazo,
Alina de la Caridad García, Deisi
Cuello Basulto
(Damas de Blanco)
08/26/15 La Habana Hugo Damián Prieto Blanco,
Lázaro
Mendoza García, Miguel Guerra
Hastié, Nelson Pascual Rodríguez,
Ángel Luis Díaz Ferao, Pavel
Herrera
Hernández, Raúl Borges Álvarez,
Ángel Moya Acosta, Egberto
Escobedo Morales, Luis Mario
Muguelcia, Yoandra Seiva Morales,
Ariel González Cuevas, Manuel
Velázquez Licea, Carlos Tamayo
Frías, Rolando Reyes Rabanal,
Ángel Figueredo Castellón, Claudio
fuentes, Antonio González Rodiles,
Osvaldo Mendoza Ferriol, Ailer
González Mena, Humberto Viel
Marín, Zaqueo Báez Guerrero
(Different organizations)
Detained 6-8 hours by political
police for solidarizing with the
Ladies in White during mass.
Bertha Soler
Fernández
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08/27/15 Parque Central,
La Habana
Reinier Rodríguez Mendoza
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained because of his dissident
activities.
Arcelio Molina
08/28/15 La Habana Sarahí Pérez Pedroso, Reinaldo
Rodríguez Hernández
(Frente de Acción Cívica OZT)
Detained 1 hour by political police
as a punishment for demanding
information about his detained
friends.
Hugo Damián Prieto
08/28/15 Centro Habana,
La Habana
José Antonio Pompa, Leudis Reyes
(Frente de Acción Cívica OZT)
Detained 8 hours by political
police because of their dissident
activities.
Hugo Damián Prieto
08/28/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Guillermo Fariñas Hernández,
Rolando Ferrer Espinosa, Jorge
Artíles Montier, Omar Núñez
Espinosa, Dayamí Villavicencio
Hernández, José Lino Asencio
(Foro Antitotalitario Unido)
Detained 2-8 hours by political
police for protesting outside the
municipal office of the
Department of Health.
Ramón Jiménez
Arencibia
08/29/15 Ciego de Ávila Roberto Valdivia Hernández
(Partido 30 de Noviembre Frank
País)
Detained 18 hours by the political
police.
Roberto Valdivia
08/30/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros
Cienfuegos
Emilio García Moreira
(Movimiento Ciudadanos Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 2 hours by political
police because of his dissident
activities.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
08/30/15 Habana Vieja, La
Habana
Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, Yasel
Rivero Boni
(Periodistas Independientes)
Detained by political police for 5
hours for taking pictures of a
fallen wall.
Lázaro Yuri Valle
Roca
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Violations of Human Rights in Cuba
September, 2015
The following report compiles information of Cubans arbitrarily arrested and/or detained, harassed, attacked, and faced acts of
repudiation* by the Cuban government in the month of September, 2015. This information is based on the monthly report published
by the Comisión Cubana de Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional (Cuban NGO specializing in Human Rights as well as
other sources in the island).
*Acts of Repudiation are physical and/or verbal aggression mobs organized by State Security (Cuba’s political police).
At least 882 arrests for political reasons in July.
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Date Incident Location
Victims Incident Type Source of
Information
09/01/15
Plaza José Martí,
La Habana María Nélida López Báez
(Federación Latinoamericanas de
Mujeres Rurales)
Detained 4 hours because of her
dissident activities.
Juan Goberna
09/01/15
Pinar del Rio Alberto Rodríguez Seruto, Leudis
Esmero Lago, Dina Caridad León
Valladares, Leodán Suárez
Quiñones, Michael Valladares Calá
(Partido Republicano Cubano)
Forced outside the Cathedral by
the Bishop for demanding freedom
of all political prisoners and
respect for human rights. They
were later detained for 2 hours.
Maikel Norton
Cordero
09/02/15
Guantánamo Yudier Blanco Pacheco
(Impacto Juvenil Repúblicano) Detained 4 hours by political
police because of his dissident
activities.
Arturo Acosta
09/02/15 Las Tunas Yohandri Gutiérrez Vargas
(Impacto Juvenil Martiano) Detained 2 hours by political
police because of his dissident
activities.
Arturo Acosta
09/02/15 Camajuaní, Villa
Clara Orlando Triana Gonzales, Damaris
Hidalgo García
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained 3-24 hours by political
police for hanging posters with
pro-freedom messages on the
streets.
Manolo Sarduy
09/02/15 Santa Clara , Villa
Clara
Yoandi Valdés Herrera, Yoanki
Ruiz García, Luis Navarro Blanco,
Yuset García Álvarez
(Movimiento Juventud Despierta-
Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained 5 hours by political
police for solidarizing with
dissidents detained in Camajuani.
Manolo Sarduy
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09/02/15 Santa Clara , Villa
Clara
Yuriet Pedroso González, Lester
Castillo Rodríguez, Orestes
Machado Calderón, Yoe
HernándezJiménez, Luis Dionisio
Rodríguez León, Marcelino Abreu
Bonora, Mildrey Agüero Torres,
Leidys Contreras Ruiz, Yandy
Martín Peraza
(Coalición Central Opositora)
Forced out of church by the priest
because they were demanding
freedom of all political prisoners
and respect for human rights. They
were detained for 6 hours.
Yandy Martín Peraza
09/02/15 Centro Habana, La
Habana
Felipe Carrera Hernández
(Confederación de Trabajadores
Independientes de Cuba)
Warned by police that he could not
attend the Pope’s mass. He was
detained 1 hour.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/02/15 Los Palacios, Pinar
del Rio
Maikel Norton Cordero
(Independent journalist)
Detained 2 hours by political
police to prevent him from
attending mass at the Catedral San
Carlos in Pinar del Rio.
Maikel Norton
Cordero
09/03/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Orestes Machado Calderón,
Mildrey Agüero Torres, Leidys
Contreras Ruiz, Yoel Hernández
Jiménez, Andrea Jiménez
Pérez, Mavis González Tápanes,
Yuriet Pedroso González, Yuneiby
Pedroso González, Rodolfo Esnilda
Pérez Benítez, Landileisys
González Conlledo, Cintia Cuellar
Chávez, Fredesmán Díaz Curbelo,
Giraldo Villavicencio Jura Jura,
Luis César Chirino Yánez, Maira
Conyedo García, Bárbara Núñez
Vázquez, Dalia Pedraza Díaz,
Iraida Julia Pérez González,
Lester Castillo Rodríguez
Marcelino Abreu Bonora, Luis
Detained by special forces 11-13
hours for protesting inside a
church and demaning respect for
human rights and freedom for all
political prisoners.
Yandy Martín Peraza
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Dionisio Rodríguez
León, Yandy Martín Peraza
(Coalición Central Opositora)
09/03/15 Camagüey Misael Cané Velázquez, Javier Joss
Varona, Yosvany Sepúlveda
(Frente Nacional de Resistencia
Cívica OZT)
Detained 4 hours by political
police because of their
involvement in dissident activities.
Fernando Vázquez
Guerra
09/03/15 Guantánamo Niorvis Rivera Guerra, Roelvis
Cuba Sendó
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 6 hours by political
police for being a suspect of
hanging anti-government posters
on the streets.
Arturo Acosta
09/04/15 Fomento, Sancti
Espíritus
Nélida Lima Conde
(Confederación de Trabajadores
Independientes de Cuba)
Detained 4 hours by political
police for selling homemade goods
even though she has a license.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/06/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Joel Ramírez Peña, Bárbaro de la
Nuez Ramírez, Emilio García
Moreira, Ramón González Pentón,
Yaniel Méndez Díaz, Dany
Miranda Gil, YasnielGalán Núñez
(Movimiento Ciudadano Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 3 hours for solidarizing
with a detained Lady in White.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/06/15 Holguín Martha Pupo Nieves,
MarexyLausau
Tamayo, Yilenis Aguilera Santos,
Mayra González Pupo
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
09/06/15 La Habana Lázara Bárbara Sendiña Recalde,
Mirtha RicardoTornet, Julia
Herrera Roque, Mayelín
Santiesteban López, Anai Penalba
Subit, Mayelín Peña Bullán, Lisett
Naranjo Girón, Eralidis Frómeta
Detained 6-8 hours to prevent
them from attending Sunday mass.
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Polanco,Adelma Ricardo Guerra,
Maylen González González, Ada
María López Canino,
María Cristina Labrada Varona
(Damas de Blanco)
09/06/15 La Habana Nelson Pascual Rodríguez, Hugo
Damián Prieto Blanco, Vladimir
Turro Páez, Andrés Avelino
Domínguez, Beltrán, Zaqueo Báez
Guerrero, Degnis Miguel González
Rodríguez , Luis Enrique López
Torres, Pavel Herrera Hernández,
Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, Ricardo
Luna Rodríguez, Leudis Reyes Cuza,
Francisco García Puniel, Lázaro José
de la Noval Usin, Reinaldo
Rodríguez Hernández, LuisJesús
Gutiérrez, Lázaro Mendoza García,
Henry Rey Rodríguez, Ariel
GonzalesCuevas, Juan Carlos
González Febles, Rubén Darío
García Artes, Servilio Villegas
Marrero, Luis Domínguez
Sardiña, Reinier Wilson Castellano,
Juan Lamas Martínez, Liván Gómez
Castillo, Miguel Borroto Vázquez,
Rolando Reyes Rabanal, Nelson
Gonzales Bernia, Ángel Figueredo
Castellón , Ángel Egberto
Escobedo Morales, Eider Columbié
Castellano, Yoel Hernández Fábrega,
José Antonio Pompa López
(Different organizations)
Detained 6-10 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Berta Soler Fernández
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09/06/15 La Habana Berta Soler Fernández, Zodrelis
Turruella Poncio, Martha Belkis
Rodríguez, Luisa Toscano
Kindelán, Lismeiris Quintana
Ávila, Joisi Jaramillo Sánchez,
Daisi Artiles del Sol, Eralidis
Frómeta Polanco, Haydee Gallardo
Salazar, Yamilé Garro
Alfonso, Nieves de la Caridad
Matamoros González, Yusleidy
Girón Ortiz, Yamilé Bargés
Hurtado, Yolanda Santana Ayala,
Tamara Rodríguez Quesada,
Gladys Capote Roque, Gisela
Sánchez Baños, Yaquelín Boni
Hechavarría, Lázara Gleisys Acosta
Toscano, Oylín Hernández
Rodríguez, Margarita Barbena
Calderin, Cecilia Guerra Alfonso,
Ivón Moralobos Melo, Aliuska
Gómez García, Arelis
Blanco Coello, María Josefa Acón
Sardiña, Virgen Coello Basulto,
María Caridad Hernández Gavilán,
Deisi Coello Basulto,
DanaisysMuñóz López, Olaida
del Castillo Trujillo, Ivón de las
Mercedes Lazo Abreu, Ivón Lemus
Fonseca, Milvia Narcisa Aguilera
Lanz, Eugenia Díaz
Hernández, IgdarisYamina Pérez
Ponciano, María Rosa Rodríguez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5-7 hours by political
police for peacefully marching in
favor of human rights and
demanding freedom for all
political prisoners.
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09/06/15 La Habana Manuel Collado Rosado, Bárbaro
Alexei Smith Ortega, Denis
Dionisio López González, Emir
González Janero, Rebeca
Rojas Ullán, Osvaldo Mendoza
Ferriol, Ángel Moya Acosta, Daniel
Alfaro Frías, Alexis Hernández
Cañizares, Antonio González
Rodiles, Lázaro García Matamoros,
Raúl Borges Álvarez, Yenisel
Bouza Garrido, YunieskiGainza
Acosta, Yurineisis Alemán Ferrer,
Carlos Almeida López, Lázaro Yuri
Valle Roca, Boris González
Cineasta, Lia Villares
(Different organizations)
Detained 5-7 hours by political
police for solidarizing with the
Ladies in White.
Berta Soler Fernández
09/07/15 Carretera Palma-
Barajagua,
Santiago de Cuba
Belkis Cantillo Ramírez, Martha
Beatriz Ferrer Cantillo, Mairolis
Oribes Perdomo, Moraima Díaz
Pérez, Keila Ramos Suarez
(Ciudadanas por la Democracia)
Detained 13 hours by political
police to prevent them from going
to the Santuario del Cobre.
Maximiliano Sánchez
Pereda
09/08/15 Santiago de Cuba Goarth Cruz Zamora, Doraisa
Correoso Pozo, Damaris Rodríguez
Ramos, Lisandra Riveras
Rodríguez, Jesús Duputei Ferrer,
Yaima Neira Salas
MaikolMediacejas Ramos,
FernandoGonzález Vaillant, Héctor
Hierrezuelo Márquez, Yordanis
Chávez Roll, Félix Delgado
Ribeaux, José Antonio Estrada
Pérez, Samuel Leblanc Pavón,
EduardoFernández Cardoso, Evelio
Detained 8-14 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
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Fernández Salazar, Yoel Fernández
Cardoso, Arlen Isaguirre Peña,
Yohandri Betancourt Castellanos,
IraidaCalá de la Frida,
Daimaris Cisneros Castellanos,
IdonisDarces Rodríguez, Davis
FernándezCardoso, Eugenio
Sánchez Anglada,
Wilber Fernández Cuza, Andy
Praga Ortega, Rafael Molina
Rodríguez, Mailín Isaac Sánchez,
Lorenzo Malezú Isaac, Yriades
Hernández Aguilera, Héctor
Velázquez Gómez, Andro Díaz
Rodríguez, Onel Nápole Fernández,
Erlin Sánchez Isaac, Alejandro
Martínez Hernández, Luis Guanche
Hernández, Yusmila Cedeño
Martínez, Roberto González Feria,
Pedro Martínez Machado, Denis de
la Rosa Beltrán, Ernesto Oliva
Torres, Aliannis Pérez Ribera,
MagalisRivaflecha Revilla, Iván
Negrón Portales, Nelvis Rodríguez
Ferrer, José Antonio Cantillo
Ríos, Ricardo Torres Hernández,
Ricardo Jiménez Sánchez, Orlando
Moreno Marzán, Luis Alberto
Cabrera Cuza, Carlos Torres
Romero, Alexis Martínez
Vaillant, Omar SayutSaquechel,
Ernesto Riberí Gascón, Aníbal
Ribeaux Figueredo, Alfonso
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Chaviano Peláez, Bárbaro
RensolerVerdecia, Armando Vivo
Calderín, Francis Álvarez
Fernández, Yander Martínez
Sánchez, Lisandra Robert Salazar,
Alexei Vargas Martín, Diango
Vargas Martín, Biango Vargas
Martín, Alexei Rodríguez Chacón,
Jesús Sánchez Romero, Soraya
Dunett Hernández, Nailet Martín
Benet, Miraida Martín Calderín,
Nerisleidys Vargas Pérez, Lázaro
Romero Hurtado, Ovidio Martín
Castellanos, Zenaida Castellanos,
Zenaida Ranz Santana, Pedro
Campa Almenares, Víctor Campa
Almenares, YamilaiDinza
Rodríguez, Yenisei Jiménez
Reina, AdaelMuñóz Guerrero,
YordanisMuñóz Guerrero, Ángel
Tabares Colón, Yosvani García
Rusindo, Rulixan García Ramírez,
Laudelino Ramírez
Mendoza, Osmay Vázquez Aranda,
Yander Díaz Santiago, Yordan
Claven Montalbán, Ángel Lino
Isaac Luna, Moya García, Yunaisis
Martín Céspedes, Erick Soca
Betancourt, NiurkaCarmona
Carmona, Alberto Carmona
Carmona, Georgina Guerrero
Santos, Thomas MuñózMadriga,
Yaseleidis Escobar, Evelyn Muñóz
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Jiménez, Jennifer Muñóz Jiménez,
LisandraVerdecia, Maidolis Oliva
Perdomo, Roberto Perdomo
Fuentes, Roilán Álvarez Rensoler,
Mileidis Gómez Pérez, Graciela
Domínguez Girón, Yasmani
Magaña Díaz, Yoanna Quesada
Masarreau , Rubén Torres Saiz,
Julio César Salazar, José
AbelendaHierrezuelo, Miraida Díaz
Pérez, Oria Casanova Moreno,
Martha Beatriz Ferrer Cantillo,
Rubislandi González, Vanesa
Domínguez, Ermita Oviaux
Sánchez, Belkis Cantillo Ramírez,
Keila Ramos Suárez
(Different organizations)
09/09/15 Nuevitas,
Camagüey
Javier Joss Varona
(Alianza Democrática Oriental) Detained 2 days by political police
for being a suspect of potentially
traveling out of the country
illegally.
Fernando Vázquez
Guerra
09/09/15 Velazco, Holguín Arnaldo Pino Leyva
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba) Questioned for 6 hours at the
police unit and threatened because
of his involvement in dissident
activities.
Juan del Pilar Goberna
09/09/15 Bayamo, Granma Rosa Escalona Gómez
(Dama de Blanco) Detained and by political police. Rosa Escalona Gómez
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09/10/15 Guantánamo Henry Couto Guzmán, Roelvis
Cuba Sendó, Marco Antonio Morán
Peregrin, Niorvis Riveras Guerra
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 62 hours by political
police for being suspects of
hanging anti-government posters.
Arturo Acosta
09/10/15 Placetas, Villa
Clara
Ciro Alexis Casanova Pérez
(Frente Nacional de Resistencia
Cívica)
Detained, and interrogated for 9
days by political police and
warned about the consequences if
he continues with the resistance.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/10/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Bárbaro de la Nuez Ramírez
(Movimiento Ciudadano Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 4 hours by political
police and warned he should stop
filming activities organized by the
Ladies in White.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/12/15 La Lisa, La Habana Lázara Bárbara SendiñaRecalde
(Dama de Blanco) Harassed by political police to
prevent him from exiting his
home.
Hugo Damián Prieto
Blanco
09/12/15 Pinar del Rio Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
(Journalist) Detained 2 hours by political
police at the Airport’s
International Terminal when he
arrived from Ecuador. He was
warned to not organize any
dissident activities.
Raúl Luís Risco Pérez
09/13/15 Holguín Edilces Céspedes Estrada, Mailín
Ricardo Góngora, Arelis Palacio
Alcina, Yoel Ordoñez Gorotiza y
Ramón Zamora Rodríguez
(Damas de Blanco and friends)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
09/13/15 Bayamo Ivania Rodríguez, Xiomara Montes
de Oca Media, Maidelín Molina
Sánchez, Agueda Molina Venegas
Yudisbel Roselló Mojena
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
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09/13/15 La Habana Lázara Bárbara Sendiña Recalde,
Roxilene Sotolongo Cruz ,María
Rosa Rodríguez Molina ,Oylín
Hernández Rodríguez, Mayelín
Peña Bullan, Milvia Narcisa
Aguilera Lanz, Eralidis Frómeta
Polanco, Ada María López Canino,
María Caridad Hernández Gavilán,
Mayelín Santiesteban López,
Mirtha Ricardo Tornet
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 6 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Berta Soler Fernández
09/13/15 La Habana Emil González Janero, Hugo
Damián Prieto Blanco, Vladimir
Turró Páez, Andrés Avelino
Domínguez Beltrán,
Zaqueo Báez Guerrero, Jorge
Fernández Mora, Luis Enrique
López Torres, Pavel
Herrera Hernández, Lázaro Yuri
Valle Roca, Ricardo Luna
Rodríguez, Leudis Reyes Cusa,
Francisco García Puniel,
Lázaro José de la Noval Usin,
Reinaldo Rodríguez Hernández,
Lázaro Mendoza
García, Henry Rey Rodríguez,
Denis Dionisio López González,
Yanisel Bouza Garrido,
YunieskiGainza Acosta, Yoeldis
Bouza Garrido, Luisa Domínguez
Sardiña, Reinier Wilson Castellano,
Rodny Gómez Luna, José Díaz
Silva, Reinaldo González, Rolando
Detained 6-8 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
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Reyes Rabanal, Walfrido
Rodríguez Piloto, Mario Alberto
Hernández Leyva, Ángel Egberto
Escobedo Morales, Lázaro Kessell
Barruecos, Luis Enrique Labrador
Díaz, Miguel Borroto Vázquez,
Daniel Alfaro Frías, Degnis Miguel
Hernández Rodríguez, Nelson
González Bernia, Humberto Viel
Mario, Armando Peraza
(Different organizations)
09/13/15 La Habana Berta Soler Fernández, Zodrelis
Turruella Poncio, María Cristina
Labrada Varona, Julia Herrera
Roque, Lismeiris Quintana
Ávila, Joisi Jaramillo Sánchez,
Daisi Artiles del Sol, Lourdes
Esquivel Vieito, Adelma Guerra
Ricardo, Yamilé Garro
Alonso, Nieves Caridad Matamoros
González, Anay Penalba Subí,
Yamilé Borges Hurtado, Zenaida
Hidalgo Cedeño, Dayanne Ortiz
Hernández, Gladys Capote
Roque, Gisela Sánchez Baños,
Yaquelin Boni Hechevarría, Lázara
Gleisys Acosta Toscano, Yusleidys
Valero Concepción, Margarita
Barbena Calderín, Cecilia
Guerra Alfonso, Ivón Moralobos
Melo, Aliuska Gómez García,
Adisnidia Dallet Urgüelles, María
Josefa Acón Sardiña,
Detained 6 hours by political
police for peacefully marching and
demanding freedom for all
political prisoners and respect for
human rights.
Berta Soler Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 63
Virgen Coello Basulto, Lucinda
González Gómez, Deisi Coello
Basulto, Danaisys Muñóz López,
Laudelina Alcalde
García, Xiomara de las Mercedes
Cruz, Ivón Lemus Fonseca,
Eugenia Díaz Hernández
(Damas de Blanco)
09/13/15 La Habana Servilio Villegas Marreo, Bárbaro
Alexei Smith Ortega, Yasmani
Bestard Rivera, Yasser Rivero
Boni, rebeca Rojas Ullán,
Osvaldo Mendoza Ferriol, Ángel
Moya Acosta, Serafín Moran
Santiago, Alexis Hernández
Cañizales, Antonio González
Rodiles, Ailer González Mena,
Raúl Borges Álvarez, Rafaela Pérez
Pérez,David Piloto Barceló,
Wilberto Parada Milán, José Daniel
Ferrer García, Rolando Reyes
(Different organizations)
Detained 7 hours by political
police for solidarizing with the
Ladies in White.
Berta Soler Fernández
09/13/15 Aguada de
Pasajeros,
Cienfuegos
Niurbis de la Rosa Hernández
(Dama de Blanco) Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/14/15 Santa
Clara
Jorge Luis García Pérez
(Frente de Resistencia Cívica OZT)
Detained 4 hours by political
police and held in State Security
premises.
Jorge Luis García
Pérez
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 64
09/14/15 Placetas, Villa
Clara
Iris Tamara Pérez, Xiomara Martin
Jiménez, Yaite Dianenelly Cruz
Sosa, Iván Fernández Depestre,
Ciro Alexis Casanova Pérez
(Different organizations)
Detained 7-8 hours by political
police to prevent them from
receiving a dissident arriving to
the airport.
Jorge Luis García
Pérez
09/14/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Damaris Moya Portielles
(Coalición Central Opositora)
Detained and beat at the provincial
unit of the State Security
Department and accused of being a
terrorist for speaking to dissidents
living in the U.S.
Damaris Moya
Portielles
09/15/15 Holguín Celina Osorio Claro, Rosa Escalona
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 2 hours by political
police to keep them from traveling
to the Santuario del Cobre where
the Pope is scheduled to have a
mass.
Arturo Acosta
09/15/15 Centro Habana, La
Habana
Andrés Díaz Rodríguez
(Buró de Prensa Independiente)
Questioned for 4 hours by the
political police.
Juan del Pilar Goberna
Hernández
09/16/15 Santa Isabel de las
Lajas, Cienfuegos
Félix Juan Cabrera Cabrera, Jean
Michel Vázquez Duarte
(Different organizations)
Detained 2-4 hours by political
police because of their
involvement in dissident activities.
Librado Linares
García
09/16/15 Holguín Yaremis Rodríguez Matos,
Yorosilaidis Spett Maulín,
Laudelina Caballero
Chacón, Cerlenis Barroso Jardines
(Damas de Blanco)
Harassed by political police. The
police broke into the home and
deported three women back to
Guantanamo to prevent them from
attending mass at the Santuario del
Cobre.
Rosa Escalona Gómez
09/17/15 Colón, Matanzas Tania Echevarría Menéndez, Maira
García Álvarez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 2 hours by political
police and warned that they could
attend the Pope’s mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 65
09/17/15 Unión de Reyes ,
Matanzas
Julia Silva Gonzales Fundara
(Dama de Blanco)
Detained 2 hours by political
police to warned them that they
could not travel to Havana to
attend the Pope’s visit.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/17/15 Cárdenas,
Matanzas
Leticia Ramos Herrería y Randel
Montes de Oca Quesada
(Damas de Blanco and a dissident)
Detained 62 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/17/15 Parque Central, La
Habana
José Díaz Silva, Mario Alberto
Hernández Leiva
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 6 hours by political
police to prevent them from
holding a meeting about human
rights.
José Díaz Silva
09/17/15 Neptuno y
Consulado, Centro
Habana
Carlos Manuel Figueroa Álvarez,
Serafín Morán Santiago
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 10 hours by political
police for being suspects of
participating in dissident activities.
Carlos Manuel
Figueroa
09/18/15 Camagüey Javier Joss Varona
(Frente de Resistencia Cívica OZT)
Detianed 4 hours by political
police for being a suspect of
hanging anti-government posters
on the street.
Fernando Vázquez
Guerra
09/18/15 Santa Clara Digna Rodríguez Ibáñez, José Lino
Asencio López, Carlos Fernández
Albolae, Isabel Fernández Yánez,
Jorge Luis Artiles Montiel, Lino
Gilbert Arencibia, Rolando Ferrer
Espinosa,Dayamí Villavicencio
Hernández, María Josefa García
Oramas, Yilian García Oramas,
Raúl López Pérez, Mileidys
Reyes Fernández, Maria Luisa
Arancoc Presibal, Marbelis
González Reyes, Natividad Blanco
Carretero, Ramón Jiménez
Harassed and watched to prevent
them from traveling to Havana and
attend the Pope’s mass.
Rolando Ferrer
Espinosa
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 66
Arencibia, Miguel Fariñas Key,
Dania Díaz Oldanibia, Irenaldo
Soza Báez, Niurbis la Rosa
Hernández, Emilio Guerra Moreira,
Bárbaro de la Nuez Ramírez, Juan
Alberto de la Nuez Ramírez,
Yolaxys Carmona Rodríguez,
Omar Núñez Espinosa y Darianne
la Ronda Martínez
(Frente Antitotalitario Unido)
09/18/15 Marianao, La
Habana
Eugenio Hernández, Ramón,
Alejandro Muñoz, Rolando Reyes
(Different organizations)
Detained 60 hours by political
police to keep them from attending
the Pope’s mass.
Eugenio Hernández
Hernández
09/18/15 Casa Blanca,
Habana del Este
Reinaldo Rodríguez Hernández
(Frente de Acción Cívica OZT)
Threatened and physically hurt by
a police agent.
Hugo Damián Prieto
Blanco
09/18/15 La Habana Martha Belkis Rodríguez, Maylen
González González
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
09/18/15 Santiago de Cuba Vismaika Amelo Jardines, Santa
Fernández Díaz, Diuneyda Verdecia
Matos, Reyna Rodríguez Cañada,
María Luisa Rodríguez Portales,
Yasmina Oliva, Marina Paz Lasbaseno
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 3 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
09/18/15 Palma Soriano,
Santiago de Cuba
Denia Fernández Rey, María Luisa
Rodríguez Portales, Yuneisis
AmayaFrías, Olga Lidia La O
Figueredo, Onelis Calderin
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 3 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 67
09/18/15 Jovellanos,
Matanzas
Annia Zamora Carmenate, Sissy
Abascal Zamora
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 2 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass in
Havana.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/18/15 Pinar del Rio Rigoberto González Vigoa, José
Ernesto Morales Estrada, Yandsi
Hémelo Lago, Lázaro Luís Ruíz
Echevarría, Olga Torres
Iglesia, Irina Caridad León
Valladares, Leodán Suárez
Quiñones, Michel Valladares Cala,
Yelkis Puig Rodríguez, Yusleidy
Romero Becerra, Margarita
Rodríguez Báez, Raquel Rodríguez
Morejón, Yaimuel Rodríguez
Arroyo, Diamelis Rodríguez
Morejón, Raúl Luís Risco, Amparo
Milagros Morejón Díaz
(Different organizations)
Harassed by political police for 5
days to prevent them from
traveling to Havana and attending
the Pope’s mass.
Raúl Luís Risco
Pérez
09/18/15 Manzanillo,
Granma
Leonardo Cancio Santana Ponce,
Marisel Escalona Rondón, Lázaro
Jiménez García, Xiomara Moncada
Almaguer, Ramón Enamorado
Santos, Tania de la Torre
(Movimiento Libertad y
Democracia)
Harassed by political police for 4
days to prevent them from
traveling to Havana and attending
the Pope’s mass.
Leonardo Cancio
Santana Ponce
09/18/15 Santiago de Cuba Vismaika Amelo Jardines, Santa
Fernández Díaz, Diuneyda
Verdecia Matos, Reyna Rodríguez
Cañada, María Luisa Rodríguez
Portales, Yasmina Oliva Gilbert,
Marina Paz Lasbaseno
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 68
09/18/15 Palma Soriano,
Santiago de Cuba
Denia Fernández Rey, María Luisa
Rodríguez Portales, Yuneisis
Amaya Frías, Olga Lidia La O
Figueredo, Onelis Calderin
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
09/18/15 Sancti Spíritus Orestes Yumar Julien Gómez
(Frente Antitotalitario Unido)
Detained 2 hours by political
police to prevent him from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Adriano Castañeda
09/19/15 Pinar del Río Rigoberto González Vigoa, José
Ernesto Morales Estrada, Yandi
Hermelo Lago, Lázaro Luís Ruíz
(Consejería Jurídica de Pinar del
Río y Defensoría del Pueblo)
Detained 4 hours by political
police for denouncing the living
conditions of a mother with 3 sons
at the provincial office of the
Party.
Raúl Luís Risco
Pérez
09/19/15 Palmarito de Cauto,
Santiago de Cuba
Rubén Torres Saiz , Caridad Saiz
Salazar, Yaimí Torres Saiz, Yuliet
Torres Saiz, Rosaida Keila
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba and
friends)
The home was vandalized with
feces and pebbles were thrown at
windows because the person is
considered a dissident.
Maximiliano
Sánchez Pereda
09/19/15 Colón, Matanzas Tania Echevarría Menéndez,
MaritzaAcosta Perdomo, Maira
García Álvarez,Yenisleidy Millo
González, Carlos, CarlosOlivera
Martínez, Lázaro Díaz Sánchez,
Francisco Rangel Manzano
(Damas de Blanco, Partido Pedro
Luis Boitel)
Detained 3-5 hours by political
police to be warned not to attend
the Pope’s mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/19/15 Aguada de
Pasajera,
Cienfuegos
Juan Alberto de la Nuez Ramírez,
Bárbaro de la Nuez Ramirez,Emilio
Moreira, Niurbis la Rosa Hernández,
Yailexis Carmona Rodríguez
(Movimiento Ciudadano Reflexión y
Reconciliación)
Detained 1-3 hours by political
police to be warned not to attend
the Pope’s mass.
Rolando Ferrer
Espinosa
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 69
09/19/15 Las Tunas Irenaldo Sosa Báez
(Frente Anti totalitario Unido)
Detained 2 hours by political
police and warned not to attend the
Pope’s mass in Havana.
Rolando Ferrer
Espinosa
09/19/15 Playa ,La Habana Mirian Leyva, Bertha Soler, Ángel
Moya, Marta Beatriz Roque
(Different organizations)
Detained 3 hours by political
police and warned not to attend
mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/19/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Digna Rodríguez Ibáñez, José Lino
Asencio López, Carlos Fernández
Arbolaez, Isabel Fernández Yánez,
Jorge Luis Artiles Montiel, Lino
Gilbert Arencibia, Rolando Ferrer
Espinosa, Dayamí Villavicencio
Hernández, María Josefa García
Oramas, Yilian García Oramas,
Raúl López Pérez, Mileidys
Reyes Fernández, Maria Luisa
Arancoc Presibal, Marbelis
González Reyes, Natividad Blanco
Carretero, Ramón Jiménez
Arencibia, Miguel Fariñas Key, Dania Díaz Oldanibia, Irenaldo
Soza Báez, Niurbis la Rosa
Hernández, Emilio Guerra Moreira,
Bárbaro de la Nuez Ramírez, Juan
Alberto de la Nuez Ramírez,
Yolaxys Carmona Rodríguez,
Omar Núñez Espinosa
(Frente Antitotalitario Unido)
Detained 2 hours by political
police and warned not to attend the
Pope’s mass.
Rolando Ferrer
Espinosa
09/19/15 San Miguel del
Padrón ,La Habana
Juan Lamas Martínez
(Movimiento de Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 18 hours by political
police to prevent him from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Juan Lamas
Martínez
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 70
09/19/15 Guanabacoa, La
Habana
Harold Lázaro Barboza Ibarra
(Partido Solidaridad Liberal
Cubana)
Warned by police agents that he
could not attend the Pope’s mass.
Harold Lázaro
Barboza Ibarra
09/19/15 La
Habana
Gladys Capote Roque, Nieves
Caridad Matamoros González, Anai
Penalba Subit
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
09/19/15 Santi Spíritus Adriano Castañeda Meneses
(Frente Antitotalitario Unido)
Detained 2 hours by political
police to prevent him from
attending the Pope’s mass in
Havana
Adriano Castañeda
09/20/15 La Habana Marlen Alonso Parada, Maité
Alfonso Veitía, Zulema Lay
Sangrioni, Moraima Batista
Rodríguez,Dayamí Lay Sangroni
(Movimiento Damas de Blanco
Laura Pollán – Su Legado)
Detained 5-8 hours by the political
police to keep them from attending
the Pope’s mass.
Leonor Reinó
Borges
09/20/15 La Habana Lidia Esther Romeu Rojas, Niurkis
Rivero Despein, Nancy Ramona
Zamora Paz, Rosario Morales La
Rosa, Leonor Reinó Borges,
Yoanna de la Caridad Martínez,
Yareny Cutiño García, Raquel
Castillo Urquiza, Cristina Xiomara
Despaign, Tania Porro Cutiño,
Mercedes González Guerrero, Julia
EstradaAramburu, Danay Canal
Aramburu, Yilsai Reyes Sánchez,
Saira Castro, Moraima Parada,
Melkis Faure
(Movimiento Damas de Blanco
Laura Pollán – Su Legado)
Harassed to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass in
Havana.
Leonor Reinó
Borges
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 71
09/20/15 La Habana Raúl Borges Álvarez, Héctor Julio
Cedeño Negrín
(Movimiento Cristiano
Democrático y Periodista
Independiente)
Detained 2-4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Raúl Borges Álvarez
09/20/15 Bayamo Yudisbel Roselló Mojena, Ivania
Rodríguez Rodríguez, Xiomara
Montesde Oca Mediaceja, Agueda
Molina Maidelis Medina Sánchez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Arturo Acosta
09/20/15 Holguín Yilennis Aguilera Santos, Rosa
Escalona Gómez, Edilses Céspedes,
DarilisPupo Blanco
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Arturo Acosta
09/20/15 Caimanera,
Guantánamo
Laudelina Caballero Chacón,
ElaineFabier Durán
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 2 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Arturo Acosta
09/20/15 La Habana Berta Soler Fernández, María
Cristina Labrada Varona, Lázara
Bárbara Sendiña Recalde, Yaquelín
Boni Hechevarría, Yamilé Garro
Alfonso, Lourdes Esquivel Vieyto,
Lucinda González Gómez,
Eugenia Díaz Hernández, Danaisys
Muñóz López, Lismeiris Quintana
Ávila, Julia Herrera Roque, Aliuska
Gómez García, Zodrelis Turruella
Poncio, Adisnidia Dallet Urgelles,
María Hortensia Milián, Ivón
Lemus Fonseca, Virgen Coello
Basulto, Lázara María
Dorrego Guzmán, Arelis Coello
Detained 8-10 hours by political
police to keep them from attending
the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 72
Basulto, Daisy Coello Basulto,
IvónMoralobos Melo, Roxilene
Sotolongo Cruz, Dunia
Medina Moreno, Daisy Artiles del
Sol, Yolanda Santana Ayala,
Yamilet Bargés Hurtado ,Milvia
Aguilera Lanz, Ada María López
Canino, Soraya Milanés Guerra,
Mayelín Santiesteban López,
Mirtha Ricardo Tornet, Oylín
Hernández Rodríguez, María Rosa
Rodríguez Molina, Mayelín Peña
Bullían, Haydee Gallardo
Salazar, Xiomara de las Mercedes
Cruz Miranda ,Ivón de las
Mercedes Lazo Abreu,Luisa
Ramona Toscano Kindelan,
Adela Guerra Ricardo, Dayane
Ortiz Hernández, Joisi Jaramillo
Sánchez, María Caridad Hernández
Gavilán, Lázara Gleisys Acosta,
María Josefa Acón Sardiña
(Damas de Blanco)
09/20/15 La Habana Ángel Moya Acosta, José Díaz
Silva, Servilio Villegas Marrero,
Mario A Hernández Leyva, Lázaro
Kessell Barrueto, Pablo Morales
Marchan, Jorge Núñez Herrera,
Serafín Moran Santiago,
Pavel Herrera Hernández, Carlos
Manuel Figueroa Álvarez, Juan
Lamas Martínez, Rolando Díaz
Silva, Manuel Velázquez
Detained 8-10 hours by political
police to keep them from attending
the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 73
Licea, Luis M Muguelcia Moreira,
Beiker Ordóñez Guillarte, Ricardo
Luna Rodríguez, Liván Gómez
Castillo, LuisEnrique López Torres,
José Antonio Pompa López, Leudis
Reyes Cuza, HugoDamián Prieto
Blanco, Lázaro Mendoza García,
Lázaro José de la Noval Usin,
Francisco García Puniel, Andrés
Avelino Domínguez Beltrán, Luis
Andrés Domínguez Sardiña,
Francisco García Puniel, Henri Rey
Rodríguez, Vladimir
Turro Páez, Daniel Alfaro Frías,
Eugenio Hernández Hernández,
Yoel Hernández Fábrega, Agustín
López Canino, Iván Hernández
Carrillo, George Muñiz
Hernández, Ramón Muñoz, Vicente
Coll Campanioni, André Damián
Gómez Soria, Yosvani Díaz Torres,
Rebeca Roja Ullan, Yenisel Bouza
García, YunieskiGainza Acosta,
Yurineisis Alemán Ferrer, Ángel
Figueredo Castellano , Miguel
Borroto Vázquez, Ismael Boris
Reñí, Zaqueo Báez Guerrero,
Marlene Ricardo Aguilar,
Yoerdis Bouza Garrido, Romnis
Gómez Luna, Yaneisi Herrera
Cabrales, Lionit Carbonell Méndez,
Martha Beatriz Roque
Cabellos, Miriam Leiva , Ernesto
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 74
Tamayo, Armando Peraza,
Alejandro UrangaJosé Manuel
Rodríguez Navarro
(Different organizations)
09/21/15 Imías, Guantánamo Jorge Luis Feria Jardines, Francisco
Luis Manzanet Ortíz, Randy
Caballero Suárez, José Manuel
Rodríguez Navarro
Detained 1 hours by the political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass at
Santuario del Cobre.
José Manuel
Rodríguez Navarro
09/21/15 Holguín Mailín Ricardo Góngora, Yilennis
Aguilera Santos, Niurka Cruz Cruz,
Arelis Palacio Alcina, Maira
González Pupo, Rosa Escalona
Gómez, Dailin Peña Tieles, Ada
Iris Miranda Leiva, Ana Iris
Miranda Leiva, Emilces Céspedes
Estrada, Darilis Pupo Blanco,
Ramón Zamora Rodríguez
(Damas de Blanco and friends)
Detained 8 hours to prevent them
from attending the Pope’s mass.
Arturo Acosta
09/21/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
María Arango Persibal, Nilo Gilbert
(Foro Antitotalitario Unido)
Detained 5 hours by political
police for solidarizing with 12
dissidents in hunger strike.
Damaris Moya
Portielles
09/21/15 Centro Habana, La
Habana
Leudis Reyes Cuza
(Frente Acción Cívica OZT)
Detained 72 hours by political
police and physically hurt. The
police charged him of
disobedience and resistance.
Damaris Moya
Portielles
09/21/15 Guantánamo Arturo Feliciano Acosta Guillén
(Comisión Cubana de Derechos
Humanos y Reconciliación
Nacional)
Detained 3 hours by political
police to prevent him from
traveling to Havana.
Juan Goberna
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 75
09/21/15 Manicaragua, Villa
Clara
José Leiva Díaz
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained 62 hours to prevent him
from participating in any activities
during the Pope’s visit.
Magalis Broche
09/22/15 Mella, Santiago de
Cuba
Moraima Díaz Pérez ,Martha
Beatriz Ferrer Cantillo, Yohana
Quesada Masabiao, Graciela
Domínguez Girón,Oria Josefa
Casanova Morena, Mileidis
Maceo Quiñones, Yasmani Magaña
Díaz, Luis Isaac Morales ,Manuel
Pérez Suarez , Abrahán Cabrera
Torres, Enrique López
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 6-24 hours to prevent
them from attending the Pope’s
mass at the Santuario del Cobre.
José Daniel Ferrer
García
09/22/15 Palma Soriano,
Santiago de Cuba
Osmay Vázquez Aranda, Alexis
Serrano Aguilar, Yanet Díaz
Santiago, Equizander Benítez
Moya, Luis EnriqueÁlvarez Lujo,
Mercedes Moya Isaac, Tomas
Núñez Madariago ,Pedro Campo
Almendares, Daineris Moya García,
Gilberto Hernández la O,
Yeroslandi Calderín Alvarado,
Paula Aracelis Girón Castro,
Roberto Almaguer González
Rulizán Ramírez Rodríguez, Héctor
Abel García Ríos, YosvaniIsaguirre
Hernández, YunaisiCarracedo
Milanés, Nardo Antonio Ramos
Alcántara, Yunaisi Martínez
Céspedes, Yordanka Bell
Montalbán, Roberto Ayala Galindo,
Isolina Reyes Consuegra, Yosvani
Detained 6-24 hours to prevent
them from attending the Pope’s
mass at the Santuario del Cobre.
José Daniel Ferrer
García
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 76
García Rusindo, Julio Arnaldo
Garrido, Ramón Chang Figas, Rosa
María Santana
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
09/22/15 San Luis, Santiago
de Cuba
Roberto Gonzales Feria, Ricardo
Guzmán Calzado, Evangelio
Rodríguez Salcedo, Luís Estiú
Suarez, Yanni Núñez
Naranjo,Geordis Gutiérrez
Laudino, Fernández Leblanc, Denis
de la Rosa Ortega, Pedro Martínez
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 7-24 hours to prevent
them from attending the Pope’s
mass at the Santuario del Cobre.
José Daniel Ferrer
García
09/22/15 Santiago de Cuba Lisandra Rivera Rodríguez,
Yordanis Chávez Roll, Damaris
Rodríguez Ramos, Aníbal Ribeaux
Figueroa, YanderMartínez Sánchez,
Maikel Mediaceja
Ramos ,Samuel Leblanc Pavón
,Rafael Molina Rodríguez,
Alexander Tamayo Castellanos
Roberto Formigo Ortiz,
ErmitoMoran Sánchez, Wilder
Cervantes Cuza, Eugenio Sánchez
Anglada, Héctor Ramón Fores
Sánchez, Andro Díaz Ross,Maylin
Isaac Sánchez, Lorenzo
Malezú Isaac, Lino Rodríguez
Mendoza, Miraida Martin Calderin,
Alexis Vargas Martín, Bianco
Vargas Martín, Diango
Vargas Martín, Soraya Dunet
Hernández, Alexis Martínez
Vaillant, Ernesto Oliva
Detained 7-24 hours to prevent
them from attending the Pope’s
mass at the Santuario del Cobre.
José Daniel Ferrer
García
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 77
Torres ,Carlos Oliva Torres,
Bárbaro Tresol Verdecia, Onel
Nápoles Fernández, Héctor Manuel
Hierrezuelo Márquez, Doraisa
Correoso Pozo,Yorquenia Preval
Hierrezuelo, Edgar Antonio Estrada
Pérez, Fernando González Vaillant,
Lisandra Robert Salazar, Alexis
Pécora Rabell, Ernesto Roberto
Riveri Gascón, Nailé
Martín Benet, Jessica Liudmila
Miranda, Yamilé Sánchez
Rodríguez, Franklin Álvarez
Fernández, Jesús Manuel
Duputey Ferrer, Héctor Velázquez
Gómez, Leonel Rodríguez Díaz,
David Fernández Cardoso, Andy
Prada Ortega, Jesús Sánchez
Romero, Yoel Fernández
Cardoso, Eduardo Fernández
Cardoso, Evelio Fernández Salazar,
Gohart Cruz Zamora, Damir
Rodríguez Cisneros, Yoandris
Betancourt Castellanos ,Ricardo
Jiménez Sánchez, Ricardo Torres
Hernández, Iván Desquierón
Portales, José Castillo Ríos, Ivette
Nápoles Echevarría, Lázaro
Romero Hurtado,
Yosmany Mayeta Labrad
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 78
09/22/15 Santiago de Cuba Reina Rodríguez Cañada, Santa
Fernández Díaz, Vismaika Amelo
Jardines, Yasmina Oliva Gilbert,
Yuleila Verdecia Matos,
Dailenis Rosabal Acosta
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
09/22/15 Palma Soriano,
Santiago de Cuba
Denia Fernández Rey, Olga Lidia la
O Figueredo, Onelis Calderín
Alvarado, Yuneisy Amaya Arias,
YenisLeydis Peraza Álvarez,
Gladys Peraza Álvarez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending the Pope’s mass.
Berta Soler
Fernández
09/22/15 Cabaiguán, Sancti
Spiritus
Bárbara Viera Rodríguez
(Independent journalist)
Unknown attackers destroyed her
house’s roof because of her
involvement in dissident activities.
Guillermo Fariñas
Hernández
09/22/15 Habana Vieja, La
Habana
Lázaro Rolando Kessell Barruecos
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Harassed by political police for
having a poster with anto-
government text.
Serafín Morán
Santiago
09/22/15 Santa Clara Luís Enrique Santos Caballero
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained 24 hours by political
police because of his dissident
activities.
Joel Bravo
09/22/15 Holguín Iván Fernández Depreste
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained 3 hours by political
police because of dissident
activities.
Magalis Broche
09/23/15 Sancti Spiritus Bárbara Viera Rodríguez
(Independent journalist)
Detained 5 hours by political
police on her way to report that her
home was vandalized. She was
interrogated and later abandoned
miles from her home.
Bárbara Viera
Rodríguez
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 79
09/24/15 Jagüey Grande,
Matanzas
Edelvys Granda Pérez
(Proyecto Millo Ochoa)
Detained 3 hours by political
police to prevent him from holding
anti-government protests.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/24/15 Guantánamo Henry Couto Guzmán
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 2 hours by political
police because of his dissident
activities.
Arturo Acosta
09/25/15 Guantánamo Henry Couto Guzmán
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 48 hours by political
police because of his involvement
in dissident activities.
Arturo Acosta
09/25/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Luis Cueto Echevarría, Juan
Alberto de la Nuez Ramírez
(Movimiento Ciudadanos Reflexión
y Reconciliación)
Detained 1 hour by political police
and later abandoned outside the
city limits. They were threatened
with being thrown off a bridge.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/25/15 Caibarien, Villa
Clara
Yamaiky Mayla Veijel
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained 3 hours by political
police for participating in a
peaceful protest.
Magalis Broche
09/26/15 Playa, La Habana Bárbaro Alexis Smith Ortega
(Movimiento Opositores por una
Nueva República)
Detained 24 hours by political
police because of his dissident
activities.
José Díaz Silva
09/26/15 Jagüey Grande,
Matanzas
Edelvis Granda Pérez
(Proyecto Millo Ochoa)
Detained 18 hours by political
police as a punishment for meeting
with dissidents.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
09/27/15 Bayamo Xiomara Montes de Oca
Mediacejas, Agueda Molina
Vargas, Maidelis Medina Sánchez
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 80
09/27/15 Holguín Edilces Céspedes Estrada, Arelis
Palacio Alcina, Niurka Cruz Cruz
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 4 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Arturo Acosta
09/27/15 La Habana Lázara Bárbara Sendiña Recalde,
Arelis Blanco Coello, María Rosa
Rodríguez Molina, Oylín
Hernández Rodríguez, Mayelín
Santiesteban López, Deysi Coello
Basulto, Ada María López Canino,
Virgen Coello Basulto.
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5-6 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Berta Soler Fernández
09/27/15 La Habana Liván Gómez Castillo, Lázaro
Mendoza García, Ricardo Luna
Rodríguez, Andrés Avelino
Domínguez Beltrán, Lázaro José de
la Noval Usin, Francisco García
Puniel, Denis Dionisio López
González, Emir González Janero,
Luis Enrique López
Torres, Hugo Damián Prieto
Blanco, Vladimir Turró Páez,
Reinaldo Rodríguez Hernández,
Yoel Hernández Fábregas, Reinier
Wilson Castellanos, Yasmani
Bestard Rivera, Mario Alberto
Hernández Leyva, José
Díaz Silva, José Antonio Moreira
Laffita, Servilio Villegas Marrero,
Pavel Herrera Hernández, Manuel
Collado Rosado, Sandalio Mejías
Zulueta, Carlos López, Manuel
Velázquez Licea, Bárbaro Smith
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent them from
attending Sunday mass.
Berta Soler Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 81
Ortega, Juan Lamas Martínez,
Lázaro Fresneda Fernández,
Agustín López Canino, Lázaro Yuri
Valle Roca, Armando Peraza
Hernández, Miguel Borroto, Raúl
Borges Álvarez, Ariel
González cuevas y Daniel Alfaro
(Different organizations)
09/27/15 La Habana Berta Soler Fernández, María
Cristina Labrada Varona, Julia
Herrera Roque, María Hortensia
Milián Pedroso, Joisi Jaramillo
Sánchez, Daisi Artiles del
Sol, Lourdes Esquivel Vieyto,
Adelma Guerra Ricardo, Yamile
Garro Alfonso, Nieves Caridad
Matamoros González, Anay
Penalba Subit, Zenaida Hidalgo
Cedeño, Dayane Ortíz Hernández,
Gladys Capote Roque, Yaquelín
Boni Hechavarría,Margarita
Barbena Calderín, Cecilia
Guerra Alfonso, Ivón Moralobos
Melo, Aliuska Gómez García,
Adisnidia Dallet Argüelles,
Lucinda González Gómez, Danaisis
MuñozLópez, Ivón Lemus Fonseca,
Eralidis Frómeta Polanco, Haydee
Gallardo Salazar, Luisa Ramona
Toscano Kindelán, Yolanda
Santana Ayala, Maylen González
González, Ivón de
las Mercedes Lazo Abreu, Yamilé
Detained 5-6 hours by political
police as a punishment for
peacefully marching and
demanding respect for human
rights and freedom for all political
prisoners.
Berta Soler Fernández
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 82
Naranjo Figueredo, María Caridad
Hernández, Roxilene Sotolongo
(Damas de Blanco)
09/27/15 La Habana Ángel Moya Acosta, Egberto
Escobedo Morales, jase Luis Suarez
Varona, Eugenio Hernández
Hernández, Luis Domínguez
Sardiña, Yasser Reinoso Ramos,
Luis Monterrey Morejón, José
Daniel Ferrer, García, Wilberto
Parada Milán,Manuel David Ortíz
Arzuaga, Ángel Figueredo
Castellón, Rolando Reyes
Rabanal, Ailer González Mena,
Antonio González Rodiles, Dairon
Moisés Torres Paz, Yeusandro
Ochoa Leiva, Vicente Poll
Campanioni, Ángel Luis Díaz
Ferau, Rafaela Pérez
Pérez, Juan González Febles
(Different organizations)
Detained 5 hours by political
police for solidarizing with the
Ladies in White.
Berta Soler Fernández
09/27/15 Santa Clara Yandy Martín Peraza, Yoel
Hernández Jiménez, Damaris Moya
Portieles, Marcelino Abreu Bonora
Orestes Machado Calderón
(Coalición Central Opositora)
Detained and hit by political police
agents because they were holding
anti-government activities on the
anniversary of the Committee for
the Defense of the Revolution.
Damaris Moya
Portieles
09/27/15 Jagüey Grande,
Matanzas
Loida Bárbara Hernández Alda
(Damas de Blanco)
Detained 5 hours by political
police to prevent her from
attending mass.
Iván Hernández
Carrillo
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 83
09/27/15 Holguín José Urbino Zaldívar,Roberto
González Hernández
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained for hours by the political
police for solidarizing with the
Ladies in White.
Magalis Broche
09/28/15 Marianao, La
Habana
Ricardo Luna Rodríguez, Liván
Gómez Castillo, Francisco García
Punier, Yasmani Bestard Rivera,
Lázaro Mendoza García, Daniel
Alfaro Frías, Luís Andrés
Domínguez Sardiña, Andrés
Abelino Domínguez Beltrán, Henry
Rey Rodríguez, José
Antonio Pompa López, Reinaldo
Rodríguez Hernández , Luis
Enrique Torres, Lázaro José de la
Noval Usín, Vladimir Turró Páez,
Reiniel Wilson Castellanos, Dennis
Dionisio López, Emir González
Janero, Hugo Damián Prieto
Blanco, Lázara Bárbara Serdiña
Recarde, Aliuska Gómez García,
Lismeiri Quintana Ávila, Lucinda
González Gómez y María de la
Caridad Hernández Gavilán
(Frente Acción Cívica OZT)
Detained by the political police for
protesting outside of the military
unit about the violation of human
rights against pro-freedom
activists.
09/28/15 Santa Clara Yandy Martin Peraza
(Coalición Central Opositora)
Detained 3 hours by political
police. He was threatened with
deportation if he does not tell his
wife to stop her dissident
activities.
Yandy Martin Peraza
Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami 84
09/28/15 Batabanó,
Mayabeque
Bárbaro Alexis Smith Ortega,
Manuel Velázquez Licea
(Opositores por una Nueva
República)
Detained 18 hours by political
police to prevent them from
organizing an event.
José Díaz Silva
09/28/15 Camagüey Dorico Alexander Sánchez Aguilar,
Ediyersi Santana Jouz
(Unión Patriótica de Cuba)
Detained 3 hours by political
police for being suspects of
hanging posters demanding the
freedom of a detained dissident.
Fernando Vázquez
Guerra
09/2/15 Camagüey Misael Canéc Velázquez, Javier
JossVarona, Ediyersi Santana Jouz,
Basilio Rubio Palacios
(Different organizations)
Detained 6 hours by political
police for protesting at an Internet
center that dissidents are not
allowed.
Fernando Vázquez
Guerra
09/30/15 Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Yuset García Álvarez, Alain
Carvajal Figueredo
(Movimiento Cubano Reflexión)
Detained by the political police for
a being a suspect of distributing
pamphlets in Santa Clara.
Joel Bravo
@ICCAS_UM
http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/
Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies