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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

10 Cuban dissidents at US Guantanamo base: blogger

10 Cuban dissidents at US Guantanamo base: blogger
(AFP)

HAVANA — Ten Cuban dissidents are seeking asylum at the US naval base at
Guantanamo, Cuba, but "are being treated like terrorists," a blogger
close to the Cuban government charged Monday.

The 10 including dissident journalists Olienny Valladares Capote and
Adolfo Pablo Borraza Chaple, have been at the US base on Cuba's
southeastern tip, for three months and started a hunger strike February
3, blogger Yohandry wrote.

The blogger did not say how the group arrived at the tightly secured US
base, which Cuba says the United States operates on its territory
against its will. The United States claims it has a valid lease.

"Both journalists have said that at the Guantanamo Bay naval base
refugees are treated like terrorists," the blogger added, alluding to
the US holding terror suspects there.

Referring to their reported hunger strike, Yohandry said it was not
clear if US authorities were force-feeding the group "as Americans
usually do in such cases."

After the 1959 revolution that brought ex-president Fidel Castro to
power in Havana many Cubans tried to make it to the base, which is
surrounded by mine fields, in a bid to emigrate to the United States.

Cuba -- the Americas' only one-party Communist regime -- does not have
full diplomatic relations with the United States.

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