“Cuban police have arrested the wives and mothers of political dissidents at a demonstration in the capital, Havana. About 30 members of the ‘Ladies in White’ were stopped as they marched alongside the mother of a prisoner who died last month after a hunger strike. They were demanding the release of some 50 government critics who are still being held after mass arrests in 2003. … Wednesday’s protest was the third held this week by the Ladies in White (Las Damas de Blanca) to mark the anniversary of the crackdown in the one-party Communist state seven years ago.” (03/17/10)