**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.
Orlando Zapata Tamayo was the first Cuban activist to starve himself to death in protest in nearly 40 years.
The case of Zapata, declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, drew international condemnation and calls for the release of all Cuba’s detained dissidents.