Cuban Police Arrest Protesters Outside Prison, Dissidents Say

Cuban police detained up to a dozen dissidents who had gone to a Havana prison to demand that fellow opponents of the government be released, dissidents said Thursday. The detentions follow a series of others since Tuesday in a crackdown against activists who have attempted to test the communist government's tolerance for free speech and assembly in the wake of Cuba's thaw in relations with the United States. Cuban officials do not comment on police activity such as the...

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