Cuban dissidents get beat up, arrested in street 1 hour after Obama's speech in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba—One hour after President Obama delivered his historic speech in Cuba Tuesday morning, a small group of Cuban dissidents calling for the release of political prisoners got a swift beat-down in the street by pro-Castro thugs, one block from the theater where Obama had called for change and democracy on the communist-led island.

The protest broke out quickly, when a woman wrapped herself in a homemade banner calling for freedom for political prisoners. The woman and those who were with her were quickly beaten down to the street, then dragged and stuffed into a bus.