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HAVANA (AP) - Forty Cuban women took turns Saturday standing behind fake prison bars to symbolize their loved ones' arrest during a government crackdown on dissidents four years ago.
Gathering at dawn for a 12-hour protest, the women erected metal bars under a staircase and stood in the fake prison cell one at a time in half-hour shifts. They sipped coffee and chatted quietly while going without food. On the opposite wall, they hung a Cuban flag scrawled with the names of their jailed loved ones.
"We don't have weapons, we are peaceful," protest host Laura Pollan said.
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