By Marc R. Masferrer
ABOUT a dozen Cuban dissidents have been arrested in the city of Santa Clara, for showing support for a Cuban university student who was harassed and threatened after quitting a communist student organization.
In this Khafkaesque world, some were actually detained after going to a local police station to inquire about other dissidents who had been arrested earlier, according to a report posed by Cuban Democratic Directorate.
The head of the Rosa Parks Feminent Movement, Iris Tamara Perez Aguilera, as well as idependent journalist Guillermo Fariñas were detained and later released.
The whereabouts of five dissidents remained unknown.
Their crime: openly supporting Martha Bravo Perez, who has had to endure "acts of repudiation" -- typically harassment, threats and name-calling -- by government-backed mobs since she quit the Union of Young Communists (UJC).
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