Sara Martha Fonseca Quevedo

Sara Martha Fonseca Quevedo and four other members of the opposition were arrested yesterday and viciously beaten by Castro State Security agents. According to her statement given this morning via telephone, Fonseca and four dissidents that accompanied her were approached by plainclothes agents from State Security on the street who called them out by name, but insisted they produce identification cards. The situation rapidly deteriorated as all of them began to receive beatings from the agents as the same agents shouted that in Cuba no one is beaten.

The five members of the opposition were then put into police cars where the violent beatings continued and transferred to a police station. At the station, the dissidents were once again physically attacked and hit across the mouth when they began shouting anti-Castro slogans before being released later in the day.

The full audio of Sara Martha Fonseca Quevedo's statement:

Sara Martha Fonseca 2-16-11