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• Cuban lawyer/blogger Yaremis Flores describes her first night in jail after arrest last week

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  The Castro dictatorship's arrest last week of Cuban lawyer/blogger Yaremis Flores, apparently because of her reporting on events in Cuba, sparked a massive crackdown after other dissidents rallied on her behalf.

  On her blog, Flores has begun telling the story of what happened to her. (Read it en [...]

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• Only under dictatorships like Cuba's, is political dissent a crime

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• Cuban activist Eliso Castillo González sentenced to 2 years in prison

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  Cuban activist Eliso Cantillo Gonzalez last week was sentenced in Holguin to 2 years in prison, the result of confrontation with police during which officials violently pushed his elderly mother.

  Cantillo, a member of the Eastern Democratic Alliance (ADO) in the town of Antilla -- my father's hometown --  was [...]

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• Former Cuban prisoner of conscience Regis Iglesias calls on Europe to be tougher with Castro

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  Former Cuban prisoner of conscience Regis Iglesias wants Europe to get tougher with the Castro dictatorship by demanding the regime respect the human rights of Cubans on the island, especially the right to free elections.

  Catholic News Agency reports:

  A leading Cuban dissident says the European Union should [...]

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