Ladies in White Arrested

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Cuban state security has just detained 30 activists as they marched in a protest led by the mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a Cuban political prisoner who died in a hunger strike on February 23.

Most of the arrested were members of the "Ladies in White" movement -- mothers, wives and daughters of current political prisoners.

They were marching to protest the 7th anniversary of the "Black Spring" crackdown of 2003, which resulted in the arrest of 75 pro-democracy leaders by the Castro regime.

Soon thereafter, they were forced into two buses.