The very unofficial Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation reports, by the numbers, what repression on the island looked like in March:
- 264: The number of arrests and temporary detentions, lasting for several hours or several days.
- 77: The number of what the commission called human rights abuses, including arrests, beatings and searches by state security forces.
- 11: The number of cases in which political prisoners were beaten, thrown into solitary confinement or otherwise were not treated under international norms on the treatment of prisonsers.
Also, the Castro regime in March released 14 political prisoners, but in the past four months, according to the commission, it has jailed 10 Cubans because of their political opposition to the regime.
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