Artist Tania Bruguera and over 160 others were arrested in Cuba over the weekend as part of the most recent government crackdown. Politcal protests resulted in 70 people detained in Havana, and another 93 arrested in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.

Brugeura was detained for an hour or two after “releasing some doves into the air as an expression of resistance against totalitarianism.” She was led away from her home on Sunday by police. Bruguera began reading 100-hours of Hannah Arendt’s seminal book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, on May 22, which coincided with the Havana Biennal, reports Hyperallergic.

Meanwhile, band leader Gorki Aguila was allegedly snatched by undercover police ourside a museum for displaying a photo of graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado and the word “freedom.” Maldonado was arrested last Dec. for tagging pigs with the names "Castro" and "Raul," in reference to the former and current Cuban presidents.

“It’s striking and worrying that while the Cuban government tries to construct a positive image at the international level, it doesn’t cease its intolerant and repressive behaviour towards the rights and freedoms of those who try to exercise them outside of official dictates,” Cuban Observatory of Human Rights said in a recent report.