CUBA: Beatings, arbitrary arrests, short term detentions/ OCT.8-16, 2011 -

CUBA

From October 7-16, 2011, the Cuban regime has subjected hundreds of human rights defenders and their families to brutal physical and emotional violence. The Coalition of Cuban-American Women makes an urgent call to the press and to non-governmental organizations dedicated to the defense of human rights worldwide as well as to civic, religious, political, educational, social, cultural institutions and to individuals in positions of leadership in these areas of society, to denounce these cruel and degrading acts committed by the Cuban regime against its own people.