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First Hand Repression Account by a Cuban Human Rights Activist

Sunday August 16, 2015Movimiento Opositores por una Nueva Republica.Movimiento Democracia,Todos Somos Resistencia Orlando Zapata Tamayo.This Sunday 16 August repression continued unabated. Beatings, arrests, insults and acts of repudiation against the Ladies in White...

A Sunday with The Ladies in White: Demanding Human Rights in Cuba

As published in Diario de Cuba, “The seventeenth Sunday of repression against the Ladies in White will be remembered perhaps by the imminent opening of the US embassy in Havana and a performance proposed by the Forum for Rights and Freedoms.””The...

Cuban regime practices largest number of arrests in last ten months

According to Diario de Cuba, “In May, the Cuban regime realized ‘641 arbitrary arrests for political reasons, across Cuba.” This, according to the monthly report on repression by the opposition group, Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National...

A.I. releases annual Cuba report: The repression continues

Amnesty International, the Nobel Peace Prize winning human rights organization, has just released its 2014 annual report on Cuba.Following is an excerpt regarding “freedom of expression, association, assembly and movement:”Criticism of the government...

Dagoberto Valdés: “Sowing seeds of democracy in Cuba”

In a special report for El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish language daily describes human rights activist and Catholic intellectual Dagoberto Valdés, as a man on a mission who, around the fertile sugar and tobacco fields of Guanajay, Cuba is “sowing seeds of democracy...