TWO EX-PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE REMAIN ARBITRARILY ARRESTED -

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TWO EX-PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE REMAIN ARBITRARILY ARRESTED
Beatings Against Ladies in White continue / September 12, 2011

Cuban authorities informed Belkis Cantillo that she will be able to see her husband, ex-prisoner of conscience, Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, on Monday, September 12, 2011 for five minutes at the 3rd Police Unit in Santiago de Cuba. The whereabouts of Ferrer Garcia were unknown to his family since September 9 when he and three other human rights defenders were taken away from the house of Raudel Avila in Palma Soriano by two patrol cars. Also arrested were Angel Moya, another ex-prisoner of conscience, as well as Raumel Vinajera and Raudel Avila. All remain under arrest except Mr. Avila who was released on September 10.