Human Rights Watch

Diplomatic corner

July 9, 2010

The European Union will revise its “Common Position” which conditions the position of the community over links with Cuba about the human rights situation on the island. [Clarín] Past negotiated releases did not bring an end to repression in Cuba. [New York Review of Books Blog] Cuban Catholic Church and the Spanish government set up mechanism [...]

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New Castro, Same Cuba

November 18, 2009

Human Rights Watch released today its 123-page report titled, “New Castro, Same Cuba: Political Prisoners in the Post-Fidel Era,” on the state of political prisoners and repression under Raul Castro’s government. The report “shows how the Raúl Castro government has relied in particular on the Criminal Code offense of “dangerousness,” which allows authorities to imprison [...]

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