Cuban dissidents say police beat, groped and detained seven women who tried to stage a march in the central city of Santa Clara to demand the release of an opposition couple jailed since early January.

In an audio recording provided by the dissidents, women were heard screaming and repeatedly shouting “Don’t stick your hands on my breasts, murderer” — allegedly as police searched for the cellphones recording the scene.

“He put his hands inside my blouse, then they lifted my blouse in the middle of the street looking for my phone,” said Idania Yánes Contreras, who led the march and recorded a narration of the Wednesday confrontation on her phone.

“We were all punched and had our hair pulled” as police carried the women to waiting patrol cars, Yánes added. Police also seized a frying pan the women had been banging on to attract attention.

Six of the women were freed Thursday and the seventh was sent home late Wednesday, Yánes told El Nuevo Herald by telephone from her home in Santa Clara.

Yánes said the seven members of the Rosa Parks Feminist Movement for Civil Rights, all dressed in black as a sign of mourning “for the victims of the dictatorship,” launched the protest carrying a sign that said, “For Freedom, Against Impunity.”

The march was intended to protest the continued detention of independent journalist Yazmín Conlledo Riverón and her husband, Rafael Álvarez Esmoris, who were arrested Jan. 8 on what Yánes described as fraudulent charges.

The women had gone only about half a block, shouting “Freedom” and “Down with Repression,” Yánes said, when uniformed police and State Security agents in civilian clothes swooped down on them and began searching for the phones.

One security official told another, “that person has a cellular there,” according to a transcript provided by the dissidents. The actual recording, posted on the blog of Jorge Luis García Pérez, known as Antúnez, is sometimes difficult to understand.

Antúnez, whose wife Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera was one of the seven women detained, writes the blog Ni Me Callo Ni Me Voy — I will not shut up or leave.

The other women were identified as Yaité Diosnelly Cruz Sosa, Yanisbel Valido, Xiomara Martín Jiménez, María del Carmen Martínez López and Damaris Moya Portieles.

The Rosa Parks movement is named after the Afro-American civil rights activist woman who sparked the bus boycott in Montgomery, Al.

Antúnez said police have subjected dissident women to sexual harassment in the past, and that his wife was once threatened with rape if she continued her activism against the government.

Dissident Miguel Rafael Cabrera Montoya, meanwhile, has started a hunger strike in a police station in the eastern town of Palma Soriano to protest his detention, his wife told Radio Martí. Yelena Garcés Nápoles said Cabrera is under investigation for a robbery in Havana last year. But he’s not been in Havana in two years, she told Radio Martí.

In Washington, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution condemning the Cuban government for the death of Wilman Villar, 31, a political prisoner who died earlier this month after a long hunger strike to protest a four-year-sentence.

The resolution also asks all governments to push Cuba to halt human rights abuses and calls on the United Nations to suspend Cuba’s membership in its Human Rights Council.