Mar 25, 2007, 11:16 AM
Havana, Rome, Brussels, March 18, 2007
PRESS RELEASE
At 12.00 local time a delegation of activists and leaders of the Nonviolent Radical Party performed a non-authorized demonstration in Havana, Cuba, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the arrest of 75 Cuban politicians, intellectuals and journalists. They were arrested on March 18, 2003 as they were claiming their right of freedom of speech. After a farce trial they were sentenced to 6 to 25 years of imprisonment. Currently, 65 out of 75 are still detained in Cuban prisons.
The nonviolent action aimed at supporting the annual march organized by the Damas De Blanco (Ladies in White) notably the wives, girlfriends and daughters of those prisoners. On the 18th of March of every year they march wearing a white dress from the Church of Santa Rita da Cascia in Havana through the 5th Avenue to ask for the release of their loved ones. The radical activists demanded that all political prisoners, including the radical member Fancisco Chaviano - jailed in 1994 - be given amnesty and released. They also asked for the non-discrimination of homosexuals
http://www.radicalparty.org/special/index_en_cuba.php
18/03/2007 | CUBA: THE DELEGATION OF THE RADICAL PARTY DEMONSTRATING IN HAVANA IN SUPPORT OF THE DAMAS DE BLANCO IS COMPOSED: MARIA FIDA MORO, ELISABETTA ZAMPARUTTI, MARCO CAPPATO, MATTEO MECACCI AND MAURIZIO TURCO.
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Havana-Rome-Brussels, March 18, 2007 - The delegation of the Radical Party demonstrating in Cuba is composed of Maria Fida Moro, daughter of Italian statesman Aldo Moro killed by the Red Brigades, Elisabetta Zamaparutti, Treasurer of the Association Hands Off Cain and Italian Radicals, Marco Cappato MEP and Secretary of Luca Coscioni Association, Matteo Mecacci, Representative of the Transnational Radical Party at the United Nations, Maurizio Turco, MP for the Party of the Rose in the Fist and Vice President of the Senate of the Radical Party.
The demonstration of the Radical party has the following objectives and motivations:
- for the amnesty and liberation of Francisco Chaviano, in jail since 1994 and member of the Transnational Radical Party and of all democratic activists;
- it's time to put an end to the racist acceptance by Europe of the repression against homosexuals in Cuba, in the Middle East, in Africa and elsewhere;
- for a full religious freedom, for the separation of churches from the State and of the State from churches.
Today, at 12pm local time a delegation of activists and leaders of the Transnational Radical Party performed a non-authorized demonstration in Havana, Cuba, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the arrest of 75 Cuban politicians, intellectuals and journalists. They were arrested on March 18, 2003 as they were claiming their right of freedom of speech. The farce trials sentenced them to 6 to 25 years of imprisonment. Currently, 65 out of 75 are still detained in Cuban prisons.
The nonviolent action aims at supporting the annual march organized by the Damas De Blanco (Ladies in White), a group of wives, girlfriends and daughters of those prisoners, awarded with the Sacharov Prize by the European Parliament. On the 18th of March of every year they march wearing a white dress from the Church of Santa Rita da Cascia in Havana through the 5th Avenue to ask for the release of their loved ones. The radical activists demand that all political prisoners, including the radical member Fancisco Chaviano - jailed in 1994 - be given amnesty and released. They also ask for the non-discrimination of homosexuals.
PRESS RELEASE
At 12.00 local time a delegation of activists and leaders of the Nonviolent Radical Party performed a non-authorized demonstration in Havana, Cuba, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the arrest of 75 Cuban politicians, intellectuals and journalists. They were arrested on March 18, 2003 as they were claiming their right of freedom of speech. After a farce trial they were sentenced to 6 to 25 years of imprisonment. Currently, 65 out of 75 are still detained in Cuban prisons.
The nonviolent action aimed at supporting the annual march organized by the Damas De Blanco (Ladies in White) notably the wives, girlfriends and daughters of those prisoners. On the 18th of March of every year they march wearing a white dress from the Church of Santa Rita da Cascia in Havana through the 5th Avenue to ask for the release of their loved ones. The radical activists demanded that all political prisoners, including the radical member Fancisco Chaviano - jailed in 1994 - be given amnesty and released. They also asked for the non-discrimination of homosexuals
http://www.radicalparty.org/special/index_en_cuba.php
18/03/2007 | CUBA: THE DELEGATION OF THE RADICAL PARTY DEMONSTRATING IN HAVANA IN SUPPORT OF THE DAMAS DE BLANCO IS COMPOSED: MARIA FIDA MORO, ELISABETTA ZAMPARUTTI, MARCO CAPPATO, MATTEO MECACCI AND MAURIZIO TURCO.
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Havana-Rome-Brussels, March 18, 2007 - The delegation of the Radical Party demonstrating in Cuba is composed of Maria Fida Moro, daughter of Italian statesman Aldo Moro killed by the Red Brigades, Elisabetta Zamaparutti, Treasurer of the Association Hands Off Cain and Italian Radicals, Marco Cappato MEP and Secretary of Luca Coscioni Association, Matteo Mecacci, Representative of the Transnational Radical Party at the United Nations, Maurizio Turco, MP for the Party of the Rose in the Fist and Vice President of the Senate of the Radical Party.
The demonstration of the Radical party has the following objectives and motivations:
- for the amnesty and liberation of Francisco Chaviano, in jail since 1994 and member of the Transnational Radical Party and of all democratic activists;
- it's time to put an end to the racist acceptance by Europe of the repression against homosexuals in Cuba, in the Middle East, in Africa and elsewhere;
- for a full religious freedom, for the separation of churches from the State and of the State from churches.
Today, at 12pm local time a delegation of activists and leaders of the Transnational Radical Party performed a non-authorized demonstration in Havana, Cuba, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the arrest of 75 Cuban politicians, intellectuals and journalists. They were arrested on March 18, 2003 as they were claiming their right of freedom of speech. The farce trials sentenced them to 6 to 25 years of imprisonment. Currently, 65 out of 75 are still detained in Cuban prisons.
The nonviolent action aims at supporting the annual march organized by the Damas De Blanco (Ladies in White), a group of wives, girlfriends and daughters of those prisoners, awarded with the Sacharov Prize by the European Parliament. On the 18th of March of every year they march wearing a white dress from the Church of Santa Rita da Cascia in Havana through the 5th Avenue to ask for the release of their loved ones. The radical activists demand that all political prisoners, including the radical member Fancisco Chaviano - jailed in 1994 - be given amnesty and released. They also ask for the non-discrimination of homosexuals.
