While the princess of the monarchical Castro dictatorship, Mariela Castro, is busy jetting around the world promoting "gay rights" in Cuba and same-sex civil unions, it appears that her cause includes the right of Cuba's LGBT community to be beaten to death by Cuban State Security agents.

Via CUBANET (my translation):

Transvestite dies after beating by police

HAVANA, Cuba, 16th of January (Dania Virgen García) - From the Ceramica Roja provincial prison, inmate Rolando Castro Sanchez from detachment 3 reports that on a Wednesday night, January 4th, a transvestite was assassinated at the police station of Guaimaro in Camaguey.

Eighteen-year-old Leidel Luis, who was known as Jessica, originally from the province of Santiago de Cuba and who lived with his partner named Yariel in Las Tunas, died after receiving a brutal beating.

The young man had arrived at the inspection station "The Yellows" (a state traffic inspection station) located at the exit of Guaimaro and was on his way to Las Tunas when for no reason at all he was detained by several police officers who began yelling and calling him a "faggot nigger and disgusting." They then began to beat him severely before transferring him to the police station in Guaimaro.

According to the source, when they arrived at the station, police officers Galindo Yarian Larena, Juan Ramon Lorenzo, their commanding officer Heriberto, and the sector chief Boris Luis Caballero, beat Leidel once again before tossing him into a jail cell handcuffed and unconscious.

The inmates in neighboring cells called out to him but he did not respond. At 1:35 am on January 5th, the police found him dead in his cell. They wrapped his body in a sheet and took the cadaver to an unknown location.