Berta Soler, Lady in White

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    Babalublog, an anti-communist blog, reports:

    The video is disturbing to watch. Berta Soler, the leader of Cuba’s peaceful human rights group the Ladies in White, is seen crossing the street all by herself. She is not seen protesting, carrying a placard, or yelling slogans, she is simply on her way to a Good Friday event.

    However, the mere fact she is out in public was reason enough for the Castro dictatorship to violently assault and arrest her. As is evidenced in the video below, Soler crashes down into the street and is dragged away across the asphalt by uniformed State Security agents like an animal:

    This video is the same event but not the one posted on Babalblog and it does show her saying something to passengers on a bus but that is hardly reason for her brutal arrest: