This past Monday morning, sixteen members of the Cuban opposition in Santa Clara, Cuba found themselves surrounded by Castro State Security and under siege by Rapid Response Brigades. The activists were preparing to stage a demonstration to protest the brutal beating of fellow opposition members Iris Tamara Perez Aguilera, the wife of Antúnez, and Damaris Moya Portieles.

Radio/TV Martí has the report (my translation):

State Security surrounds opposition members in Santa Clara

An attempt to impede a protest over the beating by their agents of dissidents Iris Tamara Perez Aguilera and Damaris Moya Portieles

Photo: (EPA) EFE

The headquarters in Santa Clara of the Central Opposition Coalition (CCO) awoke on Monday surrounded by agents of the political police and Rapid Response Brigades.

The Castro forces intended to silence sixteen members of the regime opposition who demand that State Security officials who on May 25th beat dissident Iris Tamara Perez Aguilera stand trial.

The opposition members are also asking the government that regime official Pablo Echemendia Pineda, the one responsible for the June 25th beating of dissident Damaris Moya Portieles, who had to be hospitalized for four days, receive the same punishment.

The opposition members yelled; "Down with the dictatorship!" "Down with Fidel!" "Long live human rights!" "Say no to impunity!"

In a statement to Radio Martí, Idania Yanes Contreras, the president of the CCO, said that the members of the organization wrote a protest letter that will be delivered to the Provincial Court of Villa Clara, in which the Castro agents are accused of these aggressions.