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Jailed Cuban journalist protests inhumane conditions

Fabio Prieto Llorente, one of 21 independent journalists jailed in , has been outspoken in describing the inhumane and unsanitary conditions in which he and others have been held. On Wednesday, he began a hunger strike to call attention to the situation at El Guayabo Prison in the western Isla de la Juventud province, the Miami-based news Web site Payolibre reported yesterday.

Prieto Llorente, 45, at left, has been actively protesting prison conditions for several weeks. In a January 7 letter to Raúl Castro Ruz, which was reviewed by CPJ, Prieto Llorente strongly criticized the Cuban president's December proposal to exchange jailed political dissidents for five Cuban citizens imprisoned in the on espionage charges. In the letter, Prieto Llorente detailed "subhuman" conditions in El Guayabo, where meals consist of "animal products" that are spoiled and burned. His current cell is just 3 meters by 2 meters, although he's had even smaller ones before. Prison authorities open his letters for fear that he will give the outside world details about his incarceration, Prieto Llorente said, and his phone privileges have been revoked for more than four months. According to the letter, Prieto Llorente is allowed to see two family members only once every two months. ...more

2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald

U.S.: Short-term detentions in Cuba reach record levels

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

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/19/3354333/us-short-term-detentions-in-cuba.html#storylink=cpy

2013-04-18 / The Washington Post

Cuba’s Ladies in White due in Brussels to receive 2005 Sakharov human rights award

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

Cuba avoids oil cutoff for now as Chavez ally narrowly wins Venezuela presidential election

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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Jailed Cuban journalist protests inhumane conditions

U.S.: Short-term detentions in Cuba reach record levels

Cuba’s Ladies in White due in Brussels to receive 2005 Sakharov human rights award

Cuba avoids oil cutoff for now as Chavez ally narrowly wins Venezuela presidential election