Cuba - Independent journalists hounded and arrested, while Granma reporter get 14 years on spying charge

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns a worrying increase in harassment of dissidents in recent months, which has yet again contradicted the intentions manifested by the Cuban government when signing two United Nations human rights agreements in 2008. Neither of these agreements – the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – has yet been ratified. “The hopes raised by the release of the ‘Black Spring' prisoners (...)

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