CUBA NEWS
September 18, 2006

FROM CUBA Ladies in White warned to be still during Summit w4e35

Miriam Leiva

HAVANA, Cuba, September 12 (Miriam Leiva / cubanet.sergipeconectado.com) - Several of the Ladies in White in Havana report they have been visited by government representatives who warned them not to stage any public activities during the Summit of the Non-Aligned Nations to meet this week in Havana.

Others in the group who live elsewhere on the island said they had been ened from traveling. One, Magaly Broche, who lives in Camajuan, said authorities prevented her from traveling to neighboring Remedios to visit a relative.

The Ladies in White is a group composed mostly of the wives and mothers of political prisoners jailed in the Spring of 2003 who have been holding quiet demonstrations since then.

The women, among them Berta Soler, Miriam Leiva, Laura Polln, and Julia Nez, said they were visited by three women who said they were Communist Party , along with an executive of their local Committee for the Defense of the Revolution who warned them not to plan any public activities from September 9 to September 18. That is two days before the Summit is to start and two days after it ends.

They said they would be allowed to walk along restricted routes near the Summit venues, but singly and not as a group. The women said the officials referred them to the guidelines published September 9 in the official daily Granma, which basically stipulated that the airport, Old Havana, the Convention Center, the areas where hotels are concentrated, and a number of major thoroughfares are restricted areas in so far as allowed activities are concerned.

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