Police in Cuba have detained the former hunger striker Guillermo Fari??as on the anniversary of the death of a fellow dissident. Fari??as had apparently been shouting anti-government remarks to mark the death of Orlando Zapata who died last year. Meanwhile loyalists to Cuba’s communist government heckled and chanted pro-Castro slogans. They targeted the unofficial headquarters of the political prisoner supporters known as the Ladies in White. The death of Orlando Zapata after an 11-week hunger strike over conditions for prisoners of conscience provoked international criticism of the Cuban government.