It has been reported that Cuban authorities arrested over 50 protesters who were marching to demand improved human rights only hours to U.S President Barack Obama's scheduled historic visit to the communist island, on Sunday, March 20.
The protesters, mostly women reportedly took advantage of the presence of dozens of international reporters in town for Obama's visit, to canvass for the release of political prisoners, everything looked good until they were quickly rounded up in buses and police cars. The group said they only want to bring their plight to Obama and the world's attention, "he needs to know that we are here being repressed simply for exercising our right to express ourselves and manifest in a non-violent way." they said.
The group known as the Ladies in White, routinely march every Sunday after Mass at a church called Miramar in a suburb of Havana, Cuba's capital city, report has it that they usually get arrested and detained for hours or days.