Marzo 18, 2007
Transnational Radical Party. Havana, Rome, Brussels, March 18, 2007
At 12pm local time a delegation of members and leaders of the Transnational Radical Party staged a non-authorized demonstration in Havana, Cuba, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the jailing of 75 Cuban politicians, intellectuals and journalists arrested on March 18, 2003 while claiming their right to free speech. Their subsequent sham trials issued sentences from 6 to 25 years of imprisonment. Currently, 65 out of 75 are still detained in Cuban prisons.
The nonviolent action aims at supporting the annual march organized by the Damas De Blanco (Ladies in White), a group of wives, girlfriends and daughters of the prisoners awarded with the Sacharov Prize by the European Parliament. On the 18th of March of every year, the Damas march wearing a white dress from the Church of Santa Rita da Cascia in Havana through 5th Avenue to ask for the release of their loved ones.
The radical activists demand:
- the amnesty and the liberation of Francisco Chaviano, arrested on May 7 1994 as he was President of the National Council for civil rights in Cuba and member of the Transnational Radical Party, and of all democratic activists;
- the time has come to put an end to the racist acceptance by Europe of the repression against homosexuals in Cuba, in the Middle East, in Africa and elsewhere;
- a full religious freedom, and the separation of churches from the State and of the State from churches.
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