Tag: Cuba political prisoners

• Monday, December 19th 2016 - 08:22 UTC

  Cuban dissidents still under Raul Castro's iron fist despite alleged openness

  

  Government officials have arrested dozens of Cuban dissidents as well as an American human rights lawyer, it was reported Sunday. Others were kept from marching in Havana to demand the relaease of political prisoners in what would indicate that the one-party communist state is in no mood for dissent, despite all that was said to US President Barack Obama and Pope Francis.