The Cuban secret police and other security forces in August made at least 608 politically motivated arrests in August, according to the Hablemos Press news agency/human rights monitor.
It was the lowest monthly count so far in 2014, but CIHPRESS said the relatively low count was not accompanied by an overall improvement in the human rights situation on the island.
As of Aug. 31, CIHPRESS for the year recorded 6,805 arrests, smashing the previous record of 5,718 documented in all of 2013. At the current pace, Cuba will finish this year with more than 10,200 political arrests.
The exact numbers differ but the pattern revealed in CIHPRESS's report mirror the findings of another human rights monitor on the island, the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation: Repression in Cuba is continuing at a torrid pace.
Read CIHPRESS's report, including details on each arrest it documented, here.
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