Today, in Havana

This is what happens in Cuba today when you have the temerity to peacefully call for the release of dissidents imprisoned on trumped-up charges that would make even Joseph Stalin blush.

You get harassed and intimidated and insulted and threatened and sometimes you get beaten, too, by a mob of Government-organised thugs.

It's called democracy, Castro style.

Photograph: Claudia Daut, Reuters