Thursday, July 5, 2007

Report: Repression in Cuba continues

A report released today by a human rights group says that repression of political opponents in Cuba remains widespread while Raul Castro has led the island. The report from the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation also concluded that there has been a decrease in political prisoners since Fidel Castro ceded power to Raul nearly a year ago.

The report also said that the prison complex run by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay is the only prison in Cuba “under permanent scrutiny”, yet should be shut down immediately.

Sources (English)- Guardian UK, Reuters Canada, The Latin Americanist

Source (Spanish)- El Diario/La Prensa

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1 comment:

  1. redwood1:19 AM

    I'm suspicious of any Cuban critic who does not call on the U.S. to abandon and vacate its claim to Guantanamo. the US underhandedly annexed the bay. Anyone with half a sense of right and wrong knows that the US doesn't belong there. And yet, one never hears a peep out of these "dissidents." Where is their sense of national identity? I think the issue of America's enclave and the dissident's silence exposes disingenuousness.

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