2010-08-23 / Juan O. Tamayo (Miami Herald)
Cuban police have freed two of the five dissidents detained during a protest on the steps of the University of Havana but were holding the three others as of Wednesday evening, human rights activists said.
Sara Martha Fonseca Quevedo and Yordani Martínez Carvajal were released late Tuesday, said Elizardo Sánchez, head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
Still held as of Wednesday evening were Michel Rodríguez Luis, Luis Enrique Labrador and Eduardo Pérez Flores, Sánchez reported by telephone from Havana.
The five were detained Monday after they read a statement criticizing the government and chanted ``Down with the Castros'' on the stone steps that lead up to the campus, a traditional place for protests before the Castro revolution seized power in 1959.
Police technically have 10 days to file charges, but can obtain extensions of the deadline, Sánchez added.
2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald
Cuba saw a record number of “politically motivated and at times violent short-term detentions” during 2012, according to the U.S. State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which was released Friday...more
2013-04-18 / The Washington Post
Members of Cuba’s Ladies in White opposition group will finally pick up Europe’s top human rights prize from 2005 in person next week in Belgium, the European Union and the daughter of the group’s former leader said Wednesday...more
2013-04-16 / The Washington Post
Cubans were relieved Monday by the announcement that the late leader Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor had been elected Venezuela’s new president, apparently allowing their country to dodge a threatened cutoff of billions of dollars in subsidized oil...more
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