• Most Recent
• Highest Rated
• Hot Comments

Uncommon Sense

• Castro regime marks World Human Rights Day with big crackdown on human rights activists

  Number of comments: 0
  

  You can always leave it to the Castro dictatorship to demonstrate how much human rights are at risk every day in Cuba.

  Today, World Human Rights Day, was no exception.

  The Miami Herald reports:

  Cuban police have detained more than 100 dissidents and put another 100 to 150 under house arrest in [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• 44 Damas De Blanco arrested in Havana while leaving Sunday Mass

  Number of comments: 0
  

  On the eve of international Human Rights Day, the Castro dictatorship on Sunday unleashed a wave of repression against members of one of the nation's most effective opposition groups, the Damas De Blanco, or "Ladies In White."

  In Havana, Castroite goons forced into buses 44 Damas who had just [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• International press group calls on Cuba to release political prisoner and journalist Calixto Martinez

  Number of comments: 0
  

  Four weeks ago today, Cuban political prisoner Calixto Ramon Martinez Arias began a hunger strike to demand his release.

  Imprisoned since Sept. 16, Martinez was arrested because of his work as an independent journalist.

  On Friday, the InterAmerican Press Association demanded that the Castro regime release Martinez.

  You can show [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Cuban dissident write Angel Santiesteban sentenced to 5 years in prison

  Number of comments: 0
  

  Angel Santiesteban

  Cuban dissident writer and blogger Angel Santiesteban has been sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of "home invasion" and "injuries," common crimes the Castro dictatorship twisted to its purposes to retaliate against Santiesteban for his blogging and other writing.

  The case, such as it is, has [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Report: 3 former Cuban Group of 75 prisoners of conscience may have been arrested

  Number of comments: 0
  

  Via Twitter, Cuban independent journalist Roberto Guerra reports tonight that three former prisoners of conscience, Felix Navarro, Ivan Hernandez and Librado Linares may have been arrested.

  The report was based on information provided by Navarro's daughter, according to Guerra.

  Other details were not available.

  [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• On 26th day of hunger strike, Cuban State Security transfers political prisoner Calixto Martinez to unknown location

  Number of comments: 0
  

  
  
  The 26th day of Cuban political prisoner Calixto Ramon Martinez's hunger strike was marked by an ominous development: Inmates at the Combinado del Este in prison told Roberto de Jesus Guerra, Martinez's editor at the CIHPRESS news agency, that State Security officials had removed' [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Cuban human rights group/news agency reports 440 arrests in November

  Number of comments: 0
  

  Whichever numbers you rely on, repression in Cuba has hit a torrid pace.

  Earlier this week, the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation reported that by the end of the year, the number of political arrests in 2012 was likely to surpass the total number for 2010 and [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Cuban human rights group reports at least 410 political arrests in November

  Number of comments: 0
  

  Note: Due to an editor by the writer, an earlier version of this post included incorrect information.

  The very unofficial Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation on Tuesday reported there were at least 410 politically motivated arrests in Cuba in November.

  That brings the the total for the year to [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• As of today, Cuban political prisoner Calixto Ramon Martinez has been on hunger strike for 24 days

  Number of comments: 0
  

  
  
  As of today, Cuban independent journalist and political prisoner Calixto Ramon Martinez Arias has been on hunger strike to demand that his captors respect his human rights and release him immediately.

  Martinez's colleagues at the Hablemos Press news agency have an update on his protest:

  Other Cuban' [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• An undercover look at the struggle for freedom in Cuba

  Number of comments: 0
  

  Via Aljazeera comes a stunning, unflinching film about Cuban opposition activists and their daily struggle for freedom.

  Mostly shot undercover, to escape the ever-present eyes and ears of the dictatorship's secret police, the documentary features testimonies from several Cuban dissidents, including several that have been featured on Uncommon Sense.

  Ivan [...]

  Share  |  Rate