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July 23, 2009

130 political arrests in Cuba in June — human rights group

The Cuban Council of Human Rights Rapporteurs has the bottom line on the political repression in Cuba during there month of June:

There were 130 political arrests, "the majority of which were made with extreme violence and to dissolve civic activities or peaceful protests reclaiming the fundamental rights contained in the International Pacts of Civil, Political, Social and Cultural Rights."

Read the rest of the report, complete with specific examples of the human rights violations committed by the Castro dictatorship, here (en español).

Posted by on July 23, 2009 at 10:43 PM |

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