Elian Gonzalez's great uncle: 'He says what they taught him'

[Nye Bevan]

5. He would be beaten up and arrested if he said anything different.

Cuban security officials detained nearly 30 members of the dissident Ladies in White while a government-backed mob twice pummeled and kicked a top opposition leader in yet another weekend crackdown on pro-democracy activists.

Guillermo Fariñas, one of the country’s best known dissidents, said he suffered half a dozen bruises in the attacks Sunday as he twice approached a police station in his hometown of Santa Clara to file a complaint against the arrests of 11 Ladies in White.

A government-organized mob of 120-130 people blocked the street and about 40 punched and kicked him, Fariñas said. He went home to change his bloody clothes after the first pummeling but returned and was attacked again in front of the station.

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