Cuban feminists arrested for asking to protest on International Women's Day
Official FMC slogan reads "Cuban women: united, firm and committed." Cuba’s “socialist” regime generally represses not only anti-government protests, but any protests organised without permission – which means virtually any. In connection with this year’s International Women’s Day, however, it went further. In January activists from Cuba’s growing feminist scene requested permission to organise IWD demonstrations on 8 March. They were arrested and interrogated just for asking. (More on this and on Cuba’s feminists from France 24 here .) In the early 1960s, the Stalinist government dissolved...