Dissidents: Cuba detains more critics

Dissidents: Cuba detains more critics
Posted : Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:53:02 GMT
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Havana - Cuba has detained four more dissidents, according to human
rights officials on Thursday. The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and
National REconciliation reported that four men were seized early
Thursday morning by security officials. Another opposition figure had
disappeared from western Cuba, they said.

"We are trying to find out where he is," Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz said.

The men had already served long jail sentences and had been released
last summer.

Over the past weeks, the Cuban government has increased pressure on
opposition groups and warned that they were serving the United States
when they pushed for changes in the political order.

Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who stepped down after nearly
five decades at the helm and turned the country over to his brother
earlier this year, has always charged that his critics were handmaidens
of Washington and traitors.

On Wednesday, the foreign ministry reported that it had information
about a series of provocative acts being planned and financed by the US
Interest Section in Havana.

In the past days, several opposition figures were detained, then released.

Castro's brother, Raul, has undertaken a series of economic and consumer
good reforms that have raised hopes for change on the Caribbean
communist island less than 200 kilometres off the US coast.

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