Dozens of opponents beaten and arrested by police policy

The Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN), who presides in Havana Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz, said in a statement Friday that more than two dozen dissidents were beaten by the Castro regime's political police, and 35 detainees, the past Feb. 3, following demonstrations in the city of Camaguey in central-eastern Cuba.

The demonstration was intended to denounce the "cruel and inhuman treatment" that is inflicted on the prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, classified as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International since 2003 and on hunger strike since December 2009.

Also more than a dozen people were detained on Thursday in the city of Camaguey, when organized in a house in the village "solidarity actions" for Zapata Tamayo.

"Almost all were released except five who were still" in Camagüey and Guantánamo detainees, stressed the CCDHRN.