DEMONSTRATION OF THE NONVIOLENT RADICAL PARTY IN HAVANA

Havana, Rome, Brussels, March 18, 2007

PRESS RELEASE

At 12.00 local time a delegation of activists and leaders of the Nonviolent Radical Party performed a non-authorized demonstration in Havana, Cuba, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the arrest of 75 Cuban politicians, intellectuals and journalists. They were arrested on March 18, 2003 as they were claiming their right of freedom of speech. After a farce trial they were sentenced to 6 to 25 years of imprisonment. Currently, 65 out of 75 are still detained in Cuban prisons.

The nonviolent action aimed at supporting the annual march organized by the Damas De Blanco (Ladies in White) notably the wives, girlfriends and daughters of those prisoners. On the 18th of March of every year they march wearing a white dress from the Church of Santa Rita da Cascia in Havana through the 5th Avenue to ask for the release of their loved ones. The radical activists demanded that all political prisoners, including the radical member Fancisco Chaviano - jailed in 1994 - be given amnesty and released. They also asked for the non-discrimination of homosexuals.

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[trion987]

Is this a radical socialist party or is it an liberal party?

[elmago305]

QUE MUJER MAS VALIENTES, VIRENSE PUEBLO DE CUBA SI EN 50 ANOS NO HAY CAMBIO YA ES HORA DE UNO

[elmago305]

@munchringen fUCK YOU PUNK BITCH YOUR FAMILY WILL PAY FOR YOUR IGNORANCE PERRA

[Sohokat]

Right! He broke the law that forbids people from speaking their minds.

[munchringen]

Orlando Zapata Tamayo, broke the law in State of law.

He was thus sentenced as criminal like he would have been in any other country in the world respecting the Rule of Law

He started the hunger strike in order to obtain some advantages (such as a cell phone, TV, kitchen, etc).

After his suicide, he was declared hero of the stateless Cubans in Miami, better known as HOMO GUSANICUS MIAMIENSIS

[Emilport74]

@kbcmighty I am not asking you to believe anything. You already believe in the Cuban propaganda, disregarding the reality. I was born and raised in Cuba and I know the reality in my country where nobody can say or do anything against the government without going to prison. All the media is censored. All the information you get from there comes from the government because they control everything, even the lives of all Cubans. That is why a lot of people leave the island to seek freedom.

[kbcmighty]

your seriously asking us to believe that a tiny island under 50 years of hostile blockade from the worlds largest superpower on its doorstep is ruled by a regime the vast majority its population despises and repudiates ? that would make the USA the most ineffective , useless , clueless and gayest empire either . The ONLY thing that sustains the Cuban revolution under such pressures is massive popular support . It could not conceivably survive otherwise . And these women clearly have no support

[Emilport74]

@kbcmighty Don't make me laugh. Who did you get that information from? The Cuban government propaganda? FYI, the vast majority of cubans in the island only repudiate the Castro's dictatorship government. These people have great support in Cuba, but they cannot express it because everyone is afraid of going to jail or get beat up. That only happen in a country where there is no freedom of speech. I think you cannot understand that because you haven't lived in a country like that.

[kbcmighty]

@Emilport74

their relatives are CIA mercenaries and common criminals . And the vast majority of cubans repudiate and despise them as CIA stooges and traitors to the Cuban nation in the pay of foreign imperialists . They have no support in cuba and are nothing but a joke . People who missed the boat at the Bay of Pigs .