[Sandokan]

Cuban gay activist arrested
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/year2010/s ... 3_N_1.html

LA HABANA, Cuba, September 23, 2010 (Mario José Delgado González, LGBT-CUBA-NOTICIAS-HOY / http://www.cubanet.org) - Police agents, last Friday 18 of December in the morning, arrested gay activist Aliomar Janjaque Chivaz, President of the independent organization pro-human rights, Cuban Foundation LGBT Reinaldo Arenas in Memoriam.

Gay activist Aliomar Janjaque Chivaz

Janjaque was in the Municipio Boyeros, Havana, interviewing and filming videos of homosexuals who had been interned by the government in the Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción (UMAP), euphemism for labor camps, during the 60s and 70s.

Janjaque, who was free from prison Wednesday morning, held a telephone conversation with this reporter, during which he said: “They detained me in Boyeros and took me to the Cojimar Police Station, Havana del Este. I was droved in the patrol car handcuffed. At the time of the arrest, I had the camera and laptop of the organization, and they took them off under the pretext that they were stolen. I was enrage, mainly because in the camera were 8 videos with strong statements of victims of the homophobic government repression that occurred in the times of the UMAP. At present, security must be blackmailing the interviewed people so they retract their statements.”

Janjaque said his objective was to send the recorded videos to Luis Mott, of the Brazilian organization LGBT Gay Group of Bahia, which has launched an initiative to sue the former Cuban dictator before the International Court of Justice for crimes against the homosexual community.

On the other hand Zenaida Chivaz, Janjaque mother, said she was threatened by telephone that his son would remain in prison, if she tried to contact the foreign press or any activist organization.

Janjaque makes a plea for help to the international LGBT community, since the digital camera and laptop confiscated by police have not been returned and are the only working tools that the organization has to perform its activities.

Didn't Fidel Castro recently express regret over the repression against Cuba's gay community? So was he, once again, lying? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11147157

[Rei Murasame]

It's quite odd how this is not being addressed by many media commentators though. It's as though the world is completely blind to it, even though it's quite well known to be going on.

[Donna]

Sandokan's spam has forced me to turn a blind eye to it.

[Chill]

not being addressed by many media commentators though

Because we still have women who are forbidden to drive?

Didn't Fidel Castro recently express regret over the repression against Cuba's gay community? So was he, once again, lying?

I think that's a bit different. They arrest activist, no matter homosexual or heterosexual activist.

[Rilzik]

If Cuba opened up to the US and vice-versa it would get better coverage.

[Chill]

If Cuba opened up to the US and vice-versa it would get better coverage.

Sometimes you don't have to exactly see it before reporting it. That's one way journalists work.

[Sandokan]

There's nobody at fault here. Everybody who's anybody is just too damn busy with more important things. You know, like freeing the "Cuban Five." One can only pay so much attention to some ungrateful faggot who's obviously working for the Empire.

[Quantum]

I think that's a bit different. They arrest activist, no matter homosexual or heterosexual activist.

True. This guy is a subversive element within Cuban society and should be rooted out to protect Cuban society. If this incident happened outside Cuba, I bet that these conservatives would side with the regime over this guy but obviously their hatred of socialism trumps their hatred of gays and thus side with the liberal activist over the socialist state.

[Eauz]

Stuff just doesn't make sense in that article. He was enraged because they took his camera's and such and not because he was being raided/arrested? His mom wasn't supposed to call any foreign reporter's, but now that he's free, there are no problems with speaking with foreign reporter's?

Janjaque makes a plea for help to the international LGBT community, since the digital camera and laptop confiscated by police have not been returned and are the only working tools that the organization has to perform its activities.

Seriously? His organisation's only working tool is to use camera's and laptops? This is pathetic. Seriously, there are other tools available to his organisation. He's just making an excuse to shine sympathy on his organisation.

[Sandokan]

After 52 years Castro dictatorship has yet to get over its hang-ups over Cubans gay or straight expressing themselves.

[Quantum]

I hope that the authorities execute the bastard, thus ending your petulant whining over this case. Most people in Cuba won't miss the life of this degenerate and resume their lives.

[ozone]

Speaking of "telephones..The mother must be lucky that in faraway towns, each household has telephones..In the Philippines, Colombia, Thailand, only those 10% of the population have landlines. Far away towns do not have. Now I know that even the remotest towns have landlines..More power to Fidel, quantum. I agree with you.

Just tell when to start composing essays in defense of Sison. I am for sale.-counterintelligence officer

[Sandokan]

Gay activist in hunger strike
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/year2010/D ... 1_N_1.html

HAVANA, Cuba, December 1, 2010 (Aliomar Janjaque Chivas http://www.cubanet.org) - The gay activist Henry Estevez Solis, declared a hunger strike after being arrested again on Sunday November 28 by two officers of the National Revolutionary Police and three agents of State Security.

Estevez remains detained in the Wajay police station, municipality of Boyeros. The activist, who has been arrested in the past by organizing cultural activities for the gay community of Havana, like the projection of films and documentaries censored by the government, told this reporter by telephone, that when the arrest was taking place he has been beaten by the officers while handcuffed. He also said that he had been insulted verbally with obscenities and insults that made reference to his sexual identity.

These types of harassments against the gay community keep occurring, in spite of the fact of Fidel Castro “apology” on August 2010 for the persecution suffered by homosexuals after his regime grab power in 1959. So much for his “apology.”

[ozone]

These gays that Cuban intelligence dangle to American security agencies are depraved DGIs who wanted to bait US intelligence agencies to give them immigrant visas to US under the guise of refugees. Once they're inside USA they do their hanky-panky which means spying There will always be somebody among the press to lobby for them under the guise of a concerned anti-Castro activist but in reality is also working for DGI. You fool me once, you fool me twice but not thrice...No wonder these press people in this forum attack Castro with lame arguments fed by or plagiarized from genuine American anti-Castro journaliists.

[Sandokan]

One of the few non violent ways to be heard in the Castro brothers 52 years paradise is going in a hunger strike as an act of protest for violation of human rights. It is very sad that these hunger strikes have to be used to bring world opinion to bear against the oppression and denial of freedom by the two tyrants and force change.