Cuba detains dissidents at ministry protest
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Cuban security police detained seven dissidents who went to the Justice Ministry on Thursday to demand better conditions for Cuba's political prisoners.
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cuba HAVANA -- Cuba released dissident lawyer Rene Gomez Manzano yesterday after holding him in jail for 18 months with no charges, a fellow dissident said. The outspoken critic of Cuba's communist government was arrested in his home July 22, 2005, for allegedly planning to take part in a protest outside the French Embassy in Havana. Gomez Manzano is the ...
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Cuba freed six jailed dissidents on  health grounds on Monday and was preparing to release a dozen  more in an apparent bid to clean up its human rights image.
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WASHINGTON, 29  - The United States refused to offer any praise to Cuba for releasing three jailed dissidents who had been imprisoned for more than a year, maintaining they should never have been arrested in the first place.
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Police blocked gay rights activists from holding a demonstration in the capital Wednesday and detained two of them despite the protest being authorized by city authorities.
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Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers said.
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At least four of 75 Cuban dissidents arrested in a broad crackdown last year were released Monday without warning, friends, relatives and local rights activists said. The surprise move raised hopes for additional releases in the coming days.
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The United States says Cuban dissidents released from Cuban prison Monday should never have been jailed in the first place. News reports from Havana say several political prisoners held since
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Police set up checkpoints and checked identity cards Thursday along streets leading to the area in the Saudi capital where anti-monarchists were expected to try to hold an illegal demonstration called by an exiled dissident.
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Police jailed a priest on suspicion of links to violence while ex-soldiers who carried out a bloody revolt against president Jean-Bertrand Aristide said reinforcements were gathering in Haiti&#39;s capital to help put down clashes
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MADRID : A political row erupted after Spain and the Netherlands vehemently protested Cuba&#39;s refusal to grant entry to three parliamentary deputies who had arrived in Havana to meet Cuban dissidents.
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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent
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The Cuban authorities on Tuesday freed the dissident writer RaÃºl Rivero, the best known of a dozen political prisoners released during the past few days in a
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Cuba said on Saturday it barred entry to three European lawmakers on a trip to support dissidents, setting back Spain&#39;s campaign to mend frosty
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In a bid to thaw icy relations with Europe after last year&#39;s crackdown on dissent, Cuban authorities released well-known writer Raul Rivero and four other dissidents as the EU reviews
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Dozens of protesters were arrested Monday for blocking the doors and streets outside congressional buildings near the U.S. Capitol, according to Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol police.
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Five thousand Cuban students rallied  outside the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana on Monday,  denouncing U.S. policy toward their country, Iraq and  elsewhere.