By The Way, Cuba Is Still Arresting Dissidents

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Townhall:

When President Obama "normalized" relations with communist Cuba nearly one year ago, it was expected among Americans that normalization would bring some kind of reform to the Castro brother's regime of punishing dissents. Sadly, nothing has changed.

 

Over the weekend Cuban dissidents were arrested and thrown in jail during the Pope's visit to the island.

 

Four dissidents opposed to Cuba’s communist regime were arrested when they tried approaching Pope Francis in Havana on Sunday, an activist group reported.

 

The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba identified the dissidents as Patriotic Union of Cuba members Zaqueo Baéz, Boris Reni, Aymara Nieto Muñoz and Maria Josefa Acon Sardiña, who is also a member of the Ladies in White, a peaceful protest group founded by female relatives of Cuban political prisoners.

 

Photos showed some of them being dragged away by security personnel at Havana's Revolution Square, where they reportedly tried to approach the pope as his white popemobile carried him to the Mass he was giving.

 

They were yelling "freedom!" and anti-government slogans, according to an Agence France-Presse photographer. Opposition groups have widely criticized the pope's decision not to meet with them during his Cuba trip.