About 70 Ladies in White and Activists Arrested Sunday

About 70 Ladies in White and Activists Arrested Sunday / 14ymedio
Posted on July 20, 2015

14ymedio, 19 July 2015 — This Sunday has led to the arrest of forty
Ladies in White and thirty activists, at the conclusion of their usual
march on 5th Avenue in the Havana neighborhood of Miramar.

After Mass in the church of Santa Rita, the Ladies in White gathered
together with several activists in Gandhi park. There, from the speakers
of a car, was heard a composition by the rocker Gorki Aguila, that pays
tribute to these women and their human rights movement.

Gorki Aguila told 14ymedio the song that just premiered, was produced
in the studios of La Paja Records, managed by the group Porno for
Ricardo. In addition to the melody of a cello, the musical theme
includes strings, guitar, bass, drums and a solo by Aguila himself.

According to the artist "the intention was to give to the Ladies another
song, to encourage other artists to make artworks to them, they deserve it."

The renowned musician was taken to the so-called Vivac de Calabazar
prison with Jorge Moya, Jorge Luis Antunez, Claudio Fuentes, Egberto
Escobedo and Antonio Gonzalez Rodiles, among others. The women may have
been transferred to a detention center in Tarara, east of Havana, where
they are routinely detained.

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