08 Nov Cuban agents rough up blogger

Yoani Sánchez, the dissident Cuban blogger Contrarian featured last month, reports that she and three associates were briefly detained and roughed up by Cuban security agents while en route to an anti-violence demonstration Friday. In the face of Cuba’s police state, Sánchez’s behaviour is what you might call ballsy.

I just managed to grab, through his trousers, one’s testicles, in an act of desperation. I dug my nails in, thinking he was going to crush my chest until the last breath. “Kill me now,” I screamed, with the last inhalation I had left in me, and the one in front warned the younger one, “Let her breathe.”

Contrarian readers can convey their dismay at Sanchez’s mistreatment directly to her excellency, Ms. Teresita de Jesús Vicente Sotolongo, Cuba’s Ambassador to Canada, at 388 Main St., Ottawa, ON, K1S 1E3, by telephone at (613) 563-0141,  by fax at (613) 563-0068, or by email: cuba@embacubacanada.net.

Hat tip: CC.