Hundreds of Cubans still detained, human-rights groups say

Around 400 Cubans have been detained during an anti-government uprising across the island that erupted last Sunday and violent events that followed.

Hundreds of dissidents, students, artists, journalists, priests and even children have been arrested in Cuba following islandwide anti-government protests that erupted Sunday and their violent aftermath.

Many remain incommunicado, according to family members and international organizations denouncing the arrests.

“My mother just called me crying,” said Arnaldo Falcon, whose brother,

Ariel Gonzalez Falcon, 21, has been detained since Sunday and is currently being held in a prison in El Cotorro, on the outskirts of Havana.

“My parents have been in that disgusting prison

since first thing in the morning, and now they have been told that they will hold him for four more