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Cuba: Prison Protest

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 @ 12:09 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Cuba
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Diaspora, Human Rights, Media, Protest, Politics
Languages:: English

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Uncommon Sense blogs about the reported quelling of a protest by guards at Cuba's Combindado de Guantánamo prison “that started after a political prisoner tried to inform a human rights activist about abuses at the prison.”

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