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| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: World Opinion Joins to Mourn, and Save, the Lives of ... |
| prison terms. Some have since been released for health reasons, but the majority remain behind bars. In late February Orlando Zapata Tamayo died after an 82-day hunger strike, and now Guillermo "Coco" Farinas lies ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Unconscionable imprisonment |
| The five spies who went to prison after the 14 original Wasp Network arrests have used up all legal recourses and their case has reached the. Supreme Court. Should the court accept the five Cubans' plea, it would ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: US slams human rights abuses in Venezuela and Cuba |
| IACHR regrets deaths in prison and urges Venezuela to stop violence in jails * Venezuela rejects politicization of US report on human rights. Western Hemisphere The 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices issued by the US ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba's Healthcare Horror |
| citizens are incarcerated in prison, and there is little doubt that the death penalty is imposed most harshly on those who are poor, black, or mentally ill. For more than a quarter century, we have struggled ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Chesimard's trooper-killing accomplice denied parole |
| in prison and of Chesimard in Cuba, said that Acoli "shot no one but merely managed to survive, but ... his passenger, Zayd Shakur, and a New Jersey State Trooper, Werner Foerster, were killed." The board was told Acoli "expressed ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Communications activist silenced in Cuban jail cell |
| months in a Cuban high-security prison and his rare conversations are monitored by Cuban officials. "He spoke with my sister-in-law on a few occasions with someone standing by him," Bonnie Rubinstein, his sister, told JTA in an ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba takes tough stance on hunger striker Guillermo ... |
| U.S. authorities at the Guantánamo prison for terror suspects have force-fed a number of detainees who staged hunger strikes to protest their treatment, despite complaints from human rights groups. Fariñas' hunger strike and Zapata's ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba blasts foreign press for dissident coverage |
| Farinas, Zapata Tamayo was in prison and was listed as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. President Raul Castro said he regretted the man's death but denied he was tortured and blamed problems on the island on ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Most deaths largely ignored |
| example, Manuel Diende Rosa went on hunger strike at a Camagüey prison to demand his rights and reportedly committed suicide in a punishment cell. Extrapolating 99 deaths from 16 percent of monitored prisons and ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Subdued Response to Cuban Dissident's Death |
| nearly three months on hunger strike in prison on the Caribbean island. "Human rights problems exist all over the world," said Marco Aurelio García, foreign affairs adviser to leftwing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Media group urges Cuba to free jailed journalists |
| independent journalists — or at least improve their prison conditions — and said Thursday it would hold the government responsible for the health of an opposition reporter staging a hunger strike. The New York-based Committee to Protect ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Honeymoon cancelled |
| In December a judge in Miami resentenced to long prison terms two of five Cuban agents arrested in 1998 for spying on anti-Castro Cuban-Americans. In January the administration included Cuba as one of just 14 countries on a terrorist ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Truth about the travel ban |
| and prison conditions he endured. While supporters of loosening the travel ban make bold predictions and philosophical arguments, few stick to the facts. Consider: • There is no ban on travel to Cuba -- only a ban on taking an exotic ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban dissident hunger striker rushed to hospital ... |
| Orlando Zapata, who died 85 days into a hunger strike to protest prison conditions in the Americas' only one-party communist regime. Zapata's death drew international outrage, with rights groups calling on ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba won't say if UN can investigate its prisons |
| U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. Rodriguez called the late Orlando Zapata Tamayo a common criminal. He refused to utter the 42-year-old construction worker's name, but told journalists in Geneva the inmate was treated humanely. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban hunger striker unconscious, hospitalized |
| are in prison - to stop eating in his honor. Farinas was taken to a hospital near him home in the central city of. Santa Clara around midday, said Licet Zamora, who is the family's spokeswoman. Farinas said his hunger strike was also to ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: A Cuban dissident is murdered while Latin leaders ... |
| A mere 300 miles away, in a military prison hospital in Havana, political prisoner Orlando Zapata lay in a coma. For 84 days the 42-year-old stone mason of humble origins had been on a hunger strike to ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban dissident died because nobody listened, laments ... |
| son bloodied from abuse in prison, and almost nobody listened." "This was just like when Pedro Luis Boitel went on a hunger strike in 1972, or when many years before, Che ordered executions by firing squad at La Cabana. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: They lack any vestige of decency |
| Three of her sons went to prison. One of them, Ariel Sigler Amaya, is being killed for being a rebel, same as happened to Orlando Zapata Tamayo. He entered prison weighing 90 kilos. Today, he weighs 50 and needs a wheelchair. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba: Fatal hunger strike creates a martyr |
| numerous beatings and abuses in prison, ultimately turning to the hunger strike as a last-resort form of protest. His refusal to wear a uniform and frequent clashes with prison guards stretched a three-year prison ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Che Guevara serves as false example |
| fortress, a Cuban military prison. In his book "Che Guevara: A Biography" Daniel James wrote Che willingly admitted to several thousand executions during the first year of Castro's regime. Che performed many ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba TV report denies gov't let hunger striker die |
| because the victim wanted television and other comforts in his prison cell. Orlando Zapata Tamayo died Feb. 23 after refusing food since December, the first Cuban victim of a hunger strike in 40 years. Imprisoned in ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban crimes and U.S. apologists |
| "Faced with a prolonged prison sentence, the fact that Orlando Zapata Tamayo felt he had no other avenue available to him but to starve himself in protest is a terrible indictment of the continuing repression ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba's deadly justice |
| to three years in prison on charges of showing contempt for Fidel Castro as well as public disorder and disobedience, according to Amnesty International. Over the next six years, he is believed to have had eight ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Political Prisoners Still Languish In Cuba |
| he stripped off his prison uniform and refused to eat solid food. He was transferred to a prison in Havana when his health deteriorated and finally transferred to a public hospital the day before he died. He was ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: What Do These Signs Indicate? |
| Right now other opponents, some in prison and some free, have started new hunger strikes. In the provinces in the interior of the country they have not ceased the arbitrary detentions: the Council of State ombudsman's office cannot cope ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Efforts to engage Cuba stall |
| of Zapata, who starved himself to death to protest prison conditions. Castro had made no significant counter-gestures after President Barack Obama lifted or eased several sanctions on Cuba last year. A bill before ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: 11 Cuban political prisoners have died in hunger strikes |
| prisoners to protest executions and inhumane prison conditions and to demand rights as political prisoners. The hunger strike that took his life on his 12th year of incarceration lasted 53 days. Denied medical ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: A Cuban revolutionary tries to reconcile the past |
| to prison and was finally allowed to go into exile. He wrote the well-regarded "Hemingway in Cuba," but Fuentes existed in a cultural netherland, at home neither in Havana nor Miami. Despite a lingering bitterness over his banishment, ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba says dead hunger striker was common criminal |
| in prison for crimes ranging from unlawful entry of a house to fraud before he went into jail for good in 2003 for crimes "not connected to politics." Behind bars, he was recruited by dissidents to join their cause and did ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba dismisses hunger strike criticism |
| Zapata, who died last Tuesday in a Havana prison after an 85-day hunger strike. The country's communist party newspaper said Mr Zapata was encouraged to begin his protest by foreign political opponents of the. Cuban regime. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Blacks bear the brunt of Cuba's brutality |
| brutality he had endured in prison. He became the first black Cuban dissident during Fidel Castro's 51-year regime to surrender his life in such protest. Accused of ``public disorder, resisting arrest and disturbing the ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Dissident's death will put Cuba on the spot |
| dying in prison. And it may also make it a bit harder for Spain, the current chair of the European Union, to go forward with its plans to normalize Europe's relations with Cuba, as if that country were any civilized democracy. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Dissident's Death Ignites Protest Actions in Cuba |
| pressure on prison officials to grant him medical attention; and two detained journalists, Victor Rolando Arroyo Carmona and Juan Adolfo Fernández Sainez, who have stopped eating to protest prison conditions. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Imprisoned for 'dangerousness' in Cuba |
| hearing and sentenced to three years in prison. Under Cuba's "dangerousness" law, authorities can imprison people who have not committed a crime on the suspicion that they might commit one in the future. "Dangerous" activities include ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Castros equal-opportunity oppressors |
| He spent nearly 29 of his 70 years of life in prison (longer than South Africa's Nelson Mandela) combating the Castros' dictatorship. Of the caucus' encounter with new dictator Raúl Castro, Congresswoman Barbara Lee claimed that she was ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba dissidents: Dead hunger striker not forgotten |
| international outcry over a hunger-striking dissident's death in prison and increase pressure on the communist government to improve its human rights record. But whether the tiny and divided activist groups can have any real ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Is the Castro-friendly Cuba policy working? |
| "Deplorable prison conditions, torture, and lack of medical attention" explained Mr. Zapata's death, said Freedom House, which in 2009 designated Cuba one of the "worst of the worst." Yet the stroking of the Castro brothers goes on. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: 4 Cuban inmates, 1 activist declare hunger strikes |
| high-security Kilo Cinco y Medio prison in the western province of Pinar del Rio, are refusing solid food, according the independent Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation. Prison authorities, and the government, ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Free political prisoners, Spain tells Cuba |
| grew alarmed about Zapata's condition and transferred him to a prison hospital in Havana, from where he was later taken to the military clinic where he died. Free political prisoners, Spain tells Cuba (26 February 2010) ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban hunger striker buried as security agents watch |
| jail attacked prison officials, according to an e-mail from Alberto Gonzalez, spokesman for the Cuban diplomatic mission in Washington. Zapata received ``all the medicines and treatments required until his ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Canada calls on Cuba to release political prisoners |
| following the prison death of a leading dissident and rights activist. "Canada is profoundly saddened by the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a. Cuban prisoner of conscience who died as a result of a hunger strike," ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba imposes "state of siege" for dissident's funeral |
| repeated protests over prison conditions. He stopped eating in December with the aim of pressuring authorities to acknowledge his designation by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. Last week, officials at the penitentiary ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba arrests curb dissident fury over starvation death |
| 85-day hunger strike protesting prison conditions. He was 42. The Cuban President, Raul Castro, 78, made the rare gesture of expressing regret at the death of Mr Zapata, but said there was no repression in Cuba. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba crackdown hardens |
| "My son was tortured the whole time he was in prison," Reina Luisa Tamayo charged in a video posted on the blog Generacion Y. The site is run by award-winning independent journalist Yoani Sanchez, in defiance ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuban human rights activist in maximum security prison must be ... |
| Cuban human rights activist in maximum security prison must be released26 February 2010Amnesty International has adopted its 55th prisoner of conscience inCuba and urged President Raúl Castro to release him immediately ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Stop coddling Cuban dictatorship |
| years for his protests in prison. His case is not that rare. During the dictatorship's 51 years in power, other political prisoners have been sent home ill from beatings to die shortly afterward. Will the world take notice of Cuban ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Death of Cuban prisoner of conscience on hunger strike must herald ... |
| ... and unconditionally release all prisoners of conscienceafter a political activist died following a hunger strike.Orlando Zapata Tamayo was reported to have been on hunger strike inprotest at prison conditions for several weeks before. |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Jailed activist starves to death in Cuba |
| Cuban prison, El Nuevo Herald reported Tuesday. "They have assassinated Orlando Zapata Tamayo. My son's death has been a premediated murder,'' Reina Luisa Tamayo said of her son's death. Tuesday. "They managed to do what they wanted. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba in crackdown after dissident's death |
| "My son was tortured the whole time he was in prison," Reina Luisa Tamayo charged in a video on the blog Generacion Y, run by independent journalist Yoani Sanchez in defiance of Havana's tightly controlled state media. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba denies role in dissident death, detains more ... |
| In prison since 2003, Zapata Tamayo was a member of the dissident group Republican Alternative. He died Tuesday after an 83-day hunger strike. The Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba launches crackdown after hunger striker's death |
| Cuba launches crackdown after hunger striker's deathCuban security agents have detained dissidents across the country to prevent protests at the funeral of a leading dissident who died on a prison hunger strike. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban Democratic Directorate Condemns Murder of ... |
| classified in Cuba as employing a "maximum severity" prison regime. For 18 days, Major Filiberto Hernández Luis, the prison's director, denied. Zapata Tamayo drinking water, the only thing he was ingesting during the strike. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban prison hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo dies |
| Cuban prison hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo dies. Mr Zapata (second left) was arrested in 2003 with more than 70 others. Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo has died in hospital after 85 days on hunger strike. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata dies after 85 days on ... |
| He had been on a hunger strike to protest prison conditions that he blamed for his deteriorating health. Oswaldo Paya, the leader of the Christian Liberation Movement dissident group, said the movement was "not seeking martyrs. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba's Free and Fabulous Healthcare |
| prison cell --not far from Gitmo, by the way-- undergoing frequent beatings. Originally, ABC's John Stossel planned to show the shocking smuggled videos in their entirety, during a 20/20 show. Alas, on Sept. 12th 2007, ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba blasts US leaders for meeting with dissidents |
| immediate release of an American held in a maximum-security prison without charge for nearly three months. Cuba alleges Alan P. Gross, who came to the island as an American government contractor, is a spy whose arrest is more evidence ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Pastors under fire in Cuba |
| Ask God to give enduring strength and peace to Pastor Omar in prison. Pray for guidance for Pastor Mario as he boldly stands up for recognition of his religious rights. Pray that the Church in Cuba will ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Reporters Without Borders correspondent turns 60 in priso |
| Cuba - Reporters Without Borders correspondent turns 60 in prison. Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 19:03. In poor health ever since his arrest in 2003, the Reporters Without Borders Cuba correspondent, Ricardo González Alfonso is today ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: TERRORIST MENTALITY |
| Combinado del Este Prison due to the laziness of the guards, proves it. Despite time , it is still classified. Fidel Castro declares on it:" We have not abandoned the revolutionary movements of the world; we are ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: The Revolution, televised |
| His favorite show is the prison drama "Oz." . In another twist, the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba may actually make it easier for American movies and shows to end up on Cuban TV. Since the ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban political prisoner on hunger strike gravely ill |
| Prison officials ordered Zapata fed intravenously against his will, family members said. Cuban political prisoner on hunger strike gravely ill (17 February 2010) http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=602421 ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: A Cuban Political Prisoner Nears Death, Is the World ... |
| prison to another special regimen in the Kilo 8 prison in Camaguey he was subjected to a huge beating. He told his mother during a brief visit weeks after the punishment that they handcuffed him and beat him to ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba releases all dissidents arrested last week |
| been in prison since 2003. The protesters were briefly jailed, then 30 were released. The demonstrators were protesting "the cruel and inhuman treatment" of. Zapata. The CCDHRN said it was concerned over Zapata's health, and ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Pastor Remains Behind Bars After Losing Appeal Right |
| BosHAVANA, CUBA (BosNewsLife)-- There was international disappointment Monday, February 1, that the leader of a growing network of independent churches in Cuba has been denied the right to appeal his six-year prison sentence by the ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Imprisoned pastor's appeal for freedom is denied |
| CubaImprisoned pastor's appeal for freedom is deniedSaturday, 30 January 2010, 11:41 (EST)A Cuban Evangelical Pastor has been denied the right to appeal his six-year prison sentence by the Supreme Tribunal in Havana. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Che Guevara Exposed: The Killer on the Lefties' T-Shirts |
| House, 500000 Cubans have passed through Cuba's prison systems, proportionally more than went through Stalin's Gulag. And many of Che Guevara's political prisoners qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history, ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Raul Castro turns into big brother Fidel |
| prison cells the independent Cuban librarians, white and black, whom the father of this exclusionary Revolution has placed in cages. I still cannot understand why the leading Officers of American Library Association have abandoned these ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: The Castro brothers' big dirty secret |
| tradition of adding to the prison population of Cubans caught practicing discordant political speech. Throughout the course of these columns on the Castro dictatorship, I have cited the chronic racial discrimination against black Cubans ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Press organisation protests heightened repression in Cuba |
| IAPA demand for "the urgent release from prison of all independent journalists, especially and for humanitarian reasons, those who are seriously ill." Caribbean Net News: Press organisation protests heightened repression in ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuban prisons torture, former inmates claim |
| By JUAN O. TAMAYOjtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.comInmates in a high-security prison in eastern Cuba are alleging that guards punish infractions with beatings and handcuffings in excruciatingly painful positions known as ``the rocker' |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Open Letter from Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, "Antunez ... |
| evidence the torture that her brother received in a Cuban prison, or is it that for you there are only five families that exist in our country that have the right to protest and demand justice for their jailed relatives? ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Castro's Berlin Wall—Still Alive and Killing |
| firing squads and prison camps, provoked the most murderous refugee crises in the history of this hemisphere? A consistently hot item on Cuba's black market is used motor oil: poor man's shark-repellent, they say. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cubans get reduced sentences for spying in US |
| Posted on Tuesday, 12.08.09Cubans get reduced sentences for spying in USBy CURT ANDERSONAP Legal Affairs WriterMIAMI -- Two former Cuban intelligence officers convicted of spying in the US were handed reduced prison sentences Tuesday ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuban spies to get reduced prison sentences |
| Posted on Tuesday, 12.08.09Cuban spies to get reduced prison sentencesBy CURT ANDERSONAP Legal Affairs WriterMIAMI -- Two convicted Cuban spies are back in a Miami courtroom to get reduced prison time after their original sentences were ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Gay Life in Cuba |
| Several young homosexuals arrested in May are sentenced to prison. Several young gay people, arrested on May 15 on the Island hours before the official celebrations of the Day Against Homophobia, were sentenced ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Guerrilla Blogging |
| in prison at an undisclosed location and whose work is produced completely in defiance of the authorities; the irreverent Octavo Cerco; a replica of Sánchez's blog, given that the original continues to be ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Online novel details struggle for press freedom in Cuba |
| given their lives for press freedom" or who remain in prison for this reason, the author told Efe in an interview. The almost 600-page novel is "the first to be published on the arduous struggle by the island's reporters for press ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Both Czechs convicted of breach of the peace in Cuba ... |
| After release from prison, the two men were taken to the immigration centre because their were expelled from Cuba. They waited there for a flight with which they arrived in Cuba, that is from Havana to London. ($1=17.215 crowns) ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| American spying for Cuba gets life in federal prison, wife gets six |
| American spying for Cuba gets life in federal prison, wife gets sixNovember 24, 1:09 AMFBI ExaminerVirginia McCabeA former State Department official and his wife have pleaded guilty tofederal charges for spying for the government of ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Former U.S. official, wife admit to 30 years of ... |
| prison, and his wife, 6 to 7 1/2 years. Both agreed to give extensive debriefings to U.S. law enforcement officials before they are sentenced. No sentencing date was set. The couple's attorney, Bradford Berenson, said in a statement ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Couple plead guilty to Cuba spying, will go to prison |
| Posted on Friday, 11.20.09. Couple plead guilty to Cuba spying, will go to prison. By LESLEY CLARK McClatchy Newspapers. WASHINGTON -- A retired State Department employee will spend life in prison without parole after he and his wife ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba needs change, not U.S. tourists |
| lift the U.S. travel ban against Fidel Castro's island-prison. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the HFAC, ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Critics of Cuba travel seek return of fugitives |
| stop on the New Jersey Turnpike and was broken out of a state prison in 1979. "She enjoys rock star status in Cuba," Fuentes said. Now known as Assata Shakur, she has unrestricted access to the island, a ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: List of the 53 Political Prisoners Arrested in the ... |
| List of the 53 Political Prisoners Arrested in the 2003 Crackdown Who Remain in Prison under Raúl Castro. Appendix 1: List of the 53 Political Prisoners Arrested in the 2003. Crackdown Who Remain in Prison under Raúl Castro ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Raúl Castro Imprisons Critics, Crushes Dissent - HRW |
| fear, knowing they could wind up in prison for merely expressing their views." José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director. (Washington, DC) - Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuban hunger striker reported very ill |
| attacks, was released from prison in 2004 because of her health. She had been sentenced to 20 years during the 2003 crackdown on dissidents known as ``Black Spring.'' An economist, Roque is one of the most active and best-known ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Two Czechs given eight months for breach of peace in Cuba |
| Two Czechs given eight months for breach of peace in CubaHavana - Two Czechs, who were arrested by Cuban authorities at the airport in Havana in March, were sentenced to eight months in prison for breach of the peace and offering ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: La Lucha: The Human Cost Of Economic Repression In Cuba |
| children's educations, and even their right to stay out of prison—since nearly all Cubans are breaking the law in some way as they seek to provide for their families. As the tourist industry and joint ventures with foreign companies ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: 2 smugglers sentenced for deadly trip in November 2007 |
| were sentenced on Friday to federal prison. U.S. District Judge Daniel Hurley sentenced Aurelio Sanchez-Ortega, 21, to more than seven years in prison and Angel Julio Navarro-Lliteras, 36, to 19 months. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Cuba frees prisoner, Spain sees goodwill gesture |
| in prison in a 2003 government crackdown on opponents, was freed on. Tuesday morning and is back with his family in Havana, dissidents told. Reuters. In addition, Cuba agreed to release from jail a Spanish businessman ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Freed Cuban calls for release of political prisoners |
| Freed Cuban calls for release of political prisonersWed Oct 21, 2009 5:59pm EDTBy Jeff FranksHAVANA (Reuters) - A day after his surprise release from prison, Cuban dissident Nelson Aguiar urged the government on Wednesday to free all ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: DECLARATION OF THE CWG OF THE ISHR |
| in the Prison of Valle Grande, in Havana city. Cuban authorities have tried to portrait his imprisonment as the result of a supposed common criminal activity; but the misdemeanours for which he is allegedly in ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Flight attendant's words could change black ... |
| to see more than the inside of a prison cell. DeWayne Wickham is a columnist for Gannett ContentOne, 7950 Jones Branch Road, McLean, VA 22107. Send e-mail to DeWayneWickham@aol.com. Flight attendant's words could change black ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: Convicted Cuban spy's life sentence reduced to 22 years |
| prison terms. No date has been set. The decade-old case has been steeped in controversy because prosecutors argued the Wasp spy network was linked to the Cuban government's 1996 shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes over the ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuban spy seeks reduced 20-year sentence |
| Posted on Tuesday, 10.13.09Cuban spy seeks reduced 20-year sentenceBy CURT ANDERSONAP Legal Affairs WriterMIAMI -- A federal judge in Miami is weighing whether to approve a reduced 20-year prison sentence for a convicted Cuban spy. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Cuba Verdad: JFK hijacker arrested -- after 40 years hiding in Cuba |
| have since been released from prison, the sources added. "This guy stayed in Cuba," the source said. It's not clear what he did during the ensuing years — or if his family was ever able to join him. As US citizens, it would have been ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Deal gives man accused in Cuban Five spy case reduced sentence |
| Posted on Saturday, 10.10.09CUBAN FIVE CASEDeal gives man accused in Cuban Five spy case reduced sentenceOne of the so-called Cuban Five convicted in 2001 of spying will get a 20-year prison sentence under a deal between the US and his ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Judge blocks US disclosures in Cuban 5 spy case |
| ... A federal judge on Friday halted a US search for national security damage assessments that had been ordered by another judge in the politically charged case of three convicted Cuban spies who are seeking lenient prison sentences. ... |
| 01/01/1970 01:00 AM |
| Imprisoned dissident says his trial was unfair |
| 1 (Luís Cino, www.cubanet.org) -Joel Lázaro Carbonell, president of the dissident Free Cubans organization, said from his prison cell that he was given a one-year sentence at a trial that ignored his rights."Once more injustice triumphs ... |