They are beaten. They are arrested by the regime's thugs. As a Cuban refugee myself, fleeing the island with my parents when I
was only 8 years old, I have seen how the regime has morphed and
evolved its methods of repression over the years. Its treatment of the Ladies in White is emblematic of how it treats
all political dissidents, with intimidation, with harassment, with
arbitrary arrests, with short-term detentions, with denying them the
ability to travel, by trying to bully dissidents into silence. It attempts to disguise its tactics of repression, trying to fly
under the radar so that outside eyes are fooled or placated or feel
that they can simply look the other way.