“‘I would like to make an appeal to the world’s conscience,’ Paya said. ‘It seems like there is a lot of indifference about the reality of human rights in Cuba.'”
Another important article about Cuba, in the Washington Post. Note the emphasis on the 75 dissidents arrested in the crackdown of spring 2003. This issue is about real, living, breathing people.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40855-2004Feb13.html
“At least 20 Cuban dissidents, part of a group of 75 journalists, librarians and economists arrested nearly a year ago, are seriously ill in Cuban prison cells where they are being held under inhumane conditions, according to their wives, friends and human rights activists in Cuba. … in telephone interviews this week with family members who have visited the dissidents in prison and with human rights activists in Cuba who monitor the situation, a picture emerged of inhumane prison conditions and continued harassment of the dissidents’ families by Cuban security agents.”
Posted on this day, other years:
- Thin Sweet Slices of California - 2009
- First Homebrew! - 2009
- Practicing to be a Real Writer - 2006
- Tulsa World Harasses Blogger - 2005
- PubLib’s Best Books of 2004 - 2005
- Geoffrey Nunberg Hearts Librarians (But I'm Still Worried) - 2005
