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Cuban authorities use tear gas to silence their anti-government slogans

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Activists, members of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy were arbitrarily detained on August 30 and 31 in the City of Guantanamo. Enyor Díaz Allen was at his home exercising his freedom of expression, manifesting his opinions against the Castro regime when he was detained on August 30 by National Revolutionary Police agents. The next day, Yordi García Fournier and Isael Poveda Silva were detained while visiting Díaz Allen on August 31 at the police unit he was being held. The youth had gone to the station to take him a packet of cigarettes when they were detained by authorities.

Rolando Rodríguez Lobaina, director of the Center for Alternative Studies of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy, the activists began shouting from the prison cell “Down with Fidel” and “Down with Raul”. Authorities responded by using tear gas to silence them.
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