International Human Rights Day

Pro-government mobs break up human rights marches

December 11, 2009

Government supporters screaming insults and slogans broke up two tiny International Human Rights Day marches Thursday and chased away a British diplomat onlooker, pounding on his car as he drove away. Hundreds of enraged Cubans confronted a march led by Yusnaimi Jorge, wife of Darcy Ferrer, a black physician and veteran dissident who had headed [...]

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Human Rights & Repression?

December 11, 2007

While the Damas de Blanco (a dissident movement that campaigns for the rights of Cuban political prisoners) were assailed by Cuban authorities for participating in a demonstration ( leading to Cuba’s National Assembly) in favor of human rights yesterday morning during International Human Rights Day, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced that Cuba will [...]

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