Cuban dissident arrested and brutally beaten by Castro regime after giving testimony at U.S. Senate hearing
Jorge Luis Garcia Perez "Antúnez" was arrested and brutally beaten until unconscious by Castro State Security this past Saturday after giving testimony at a U.S. Senate hearing on repression in Cuba via video conference this past Thursday.
Capitol Hill Cubans has the report:
Senate Witness Arrested and Brutally Beaten
Pursuant to last week's testimony in the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Cuban pro-democracy leader Jorge Luis Garcia Perez "Antunez" has been arrested and brutally beaten by the Castro regime.According to Antunez's wife (in testimony this morning to Radio Republica), Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, he was arrested on Saturday afternoon, brutally beaten, doused with pepper spray until unconscious and violently removed from his cell by the authorities that evening.
Antunez has not been heard from since.
His wife believes this is in reprisal for Antunez's testimony in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
This serves as a stark reminder of what happens to Cuban activists who dare speak the truth.
Maybe it'll give some pause to those who applaud the Castro regime's apparatchiks when they travel to the U.S. on propaganda tours (thanks to the State Department's generous new visa policy).
For now, please join us in demanding Antunez's safe release.
[...] Bloggers from the Cuban diaspora are concerned about the reported beating and detainment of dissident Jorge Luis García Pérez, more popularly known as Antunez, after he testified via teleconference at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing about the human rights situation on the island. [...]