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Cuba: Dissident Release Hailed

Other Activists and Dissidents Remain Incarcerated

Human Rights Watch today applauded the release of political dissident Vladimiro Roca Atúnez, one of Cuba's most prominent pro-democracy activists. Roca was freed on Sunday, two months before the expiration of his five-year sentence for sedition Three of…
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Cuba: Beating and Incarceration of Human Rights Activists Condemned

The Cuban authorities should release a group of human rights activists and independent journalists who were arbitrarily detained by police in March, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Fidel Castro. According to information received by…
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Jiang Zemin-Fidel Castro Summit

China-Cuba Meeting Highlights Rights Concerns

By celebrating a state visit just prior to the votes on proposed U.N. resolutions condemning their governments' human rights records, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Cuban President Fidel Castro are signaling a worrisome mutual agenda on rights issues,…
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Cuba: Czechs Reportedly Charged

Human Rights Watch called on the Cuban authorities to release two prominent Czech citizens who have been held in detention since January 12. The Cuban Criminal Code contains a very broad definition of "rebellion" that criminalizes a whole host of…
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Crackdown in Cuba During Putin Visit

Convictions of Political Dissidents Condemned

Human Rights Watch condemned the unjust conviction of two Cuban political dissidents charged with "contempt for authority." The two prisoners, Angel Moya Acosta and Julia Cecilia Delgado, each received one-year sentences after being arrested during a…
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Mexico's Expulsion of Cuban Condemned

Human Rights Watch strongly condemned the Mexican government's expulsion on October 4 of a Cuban who had sought political asylum in Mexico. The man, Pedro Riera Escalante, may well be detained, summarily tried, and face severe punishment in Cuba--…
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Cuba Silences Dissent with Abuses, Oppressive Laws

U.S. Embargo "Counterproductive"

Forty years after the revolution, Cuba's Fidel Castro maintains control through intimidation, repressive laws, and by imprisoning dissidents, Human Rights Watch said in a reportCuba's Repressive Machinery: Human Rights Forty Years After the Revolution .…
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Cuba Plans to Try Four Prominent Dissidents for Sedition Soon

PRESS ADVISORY - October 15, 1998

In the coming weeks, the Cuban government is expected to try four leading dissidents for sedition, a "crime against state security," although none of them has ever advocated violence against the state Some commentators have suggested that international…
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Human Rights Watch Urges Pope to Raise Cuban Rights

As Pope John Paul II is embarking on his mission to Cuba, Human Rights Watch urges him to address the serious civil and political rights abuses committed by the Cuban government. Among the urgent reforms the Vatican should promote in Cuba, according to…
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Cuba: Improvements without Reform

To facilitate its full integration into the world community—and thus the world economy—the Cuban government is trying to improve its human rights image. To a limited extent, the government’s concern with image has given rise to some concrete improvements…
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Cuba: Repression, the Exodus of August 1994, and the U.S. Response

Based on numerous interviews with Cuban dissidents, recent exiles and human rights monitors both inside and outside of the country, Human Rights Watch offers the following conclusions regarding human rights in Cuba, the Cuban exodus of 1994, and the U.S.…
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Cuba: Stifling Dissent in the Midst of Crisis

Cuba is undergoing an economic crisis without precedent since the access to power of Fidel Castro in 1959. The causes, both ultimate and proximate, of that crisis are beyond the scope of this report. The crisis, however, and the consequent political…
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Human Rights Activists Behind Bars in Cuba

Today, at least twenty-one human rights activists are believed to be held, with or without charge, for infractions of Cuban law such as producing a human rights newsletter and attempting to form a political party. The crimes under which human rights…