(15 Oct 2011)
FILE: Havana - 25 April 2010
1. Tracking shot of "Ladies in White" founder Laura Pollan talking to government security agent (off-screen) UPSOUND: (Spanish) Laura Pollan: "Please show some education and listen to what we have to say. We once again tell you that if you do not bring us a legal document, we cannot follow your verbal orders. We are not the military. You must communicate with us in a legal fashion with a document from the Ministry of Justice or from the Ministry of the Interior. Freedom! Freedom!", Pollan and other "Ladies in White" marching away
Havana - 14 October 2011
2. Laura Labrada, daughter of Pollan (from previous marriage), crying whilst talking on mobile phone
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hector Maseda, dissident and husband of Laura Pollan
"What happened? She died, that's what happened. Why? A heart and respiratory failure. They tried to revive her for almost an hour. What are we going to do? We want to have her at home for a while and then cremate her, which was her last wish. At some point, and it doesn't have to be now, we want to take her ashes to a flower meadow and spread them. We will do that as a family."
4. Men moving stretcher carrying Pollan's body to ambulance, putting body in ambulance, Maseda getting in ambulance
5. Dissidents gathered at hospital
6. Wide of ambulance doors closing
FILE: Havana - 25 April 2010
7. Pollan and other "Ladies in White" being escorted towards bus with crowd pushing and shoving and shouting at them, pull out
8. Various of Pollan and other members of "Ladies in White" being pushed by government supporters as they get on to bus
9. Government supporters shouting at "Ladies in White" as bus pulls away
FILE: Havana - 24 September 2011
10. Government supporters surrounding home of dissident Laura Pollan, with flags and portrait placards, chanting against dissidents
11. Pollan at doorway, making sign of freedom with hand
12. Pull out ''Ladies in White'' at window to crowd shouting outside
13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Laura Pollan, ''Lady in White'':
"As you can see it's the same group of students and people that have participated in all the acts of repudiation. As you can see, they are not ''hot heads'' as the government tries to say. They are not spontaneous protests. They are people that are bussed here. They are always the same people."
14. Wide of government supporters outside Pollan's house
STORYLINE
Cuban dissident Laura Pollan, who founded the opposition group Ladies in White and for nearly a decade staged weekly protest marches with other wives of political prisoners to press for their release, died on Friday, fellow dissidents said.
She was 63.
Pollan was hospitalised on 8 October for acute respiratory problems and had been in intensive care ever since.
Her husband Hector Maseda was with her at a Havana hospital when she died.
"What happened? She died, that's what happened. Why? A heart and respiratory failure. They tried to revive her for almost an hour," Maseda told reporters outside the hospital.
Pollan was one of the best-known and most vocal opposition figures in a country where those who dissent publicly risk reprisals or imprisonment.
Even after the Ladies accomplished the goal for which they were founded - their husbands' freedom - the group continued to protest against the government, which excoriated the women as traitors doing the bidding of the United States.
Few can remember a time Pollan was seen in any colour other than white, but before 2003 she was a nearly anonymous high school literature teacher who loved cats and plants.
As the Ladies' fame grew, so did the pressure.
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