A Lady in White is being choked by a female member of the Cuban government's security forces in Havana. Image: AP
Police forcibly took some 30 women off the streets Wednesday as they marched in a protest led by the mother of a political prisoner who died in a hunger strike, an AFP journalist witnessed.
The “Ladies in White” were heckled by hundreds of government supporters as they marched through Havana with the mother of Orlando Zapata, who died in a prison hunger strike February 23.
Police moved in and female officers forced the dissidents into two buses and drove them to the home of group leader, Laura Pollan, where they were dropped off and allowed to go free, a member of the group told AFP.
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