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Blasting report on human rights: “New Castro, Same Cuba”

Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 03:58 UTC
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Cuban president Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners, arrested during Fidel Castro's rule, to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch says in a report released this week. Rather than dismantle Cuba's repressive machinery, Raúl Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active, the report says. Read full article

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  • Gus

    “Strange” that this so called “Human rights watch” seems only interested in “watching” certain countries. Never heard of them “watching” Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and all those “democracies” that maintain cozy relations with “ the west”
    This proves that there are GOOD AND BAD DEMOCRACIES AND GOOD AND BAD DICTATORSHIPS in the eyes of you know whom.

    Nov 25th, 2009 - 06:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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