Rights abuses unabated in Raul Castro's Cuba: group
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Eleven months after Cuban leader Fidel Castro handed over power to his brother, Cuba continues to trample on civil liberties, though the number of political prisoners has fallen, a rights group said on Thursday.
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Cuba will free seven of 59 dissidents  imprisoned since 2003, a move that opponents of ailing Cuban  leader Fidel Castro said reflects a "climate of change" under  his brother's rule.
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In his first public comments since becoming Cuba's acting president, Raul Castro said his brother Fidel is recovering and that thousands of troops were mobilized soon after his illness was announced, according to an interview published Friday.
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Fighting between Hamas and Fatah is fuelling human rights abuses, Amnesty International says in a report.
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Argentina will get nowhere pressing Cuba to allow a dissident neurosurgeon to travel to see her son and grandchildren in Buenos Aires, the country's former ambassador in Havana, Raul Taleb, said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON: The International Committee of the Red Cross has found prisoner abuse that amounted to &quot;a form of torture&quot; at a US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The New York Times newspaper said yesterday.
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Cuba on Wednesday cheered the new U.N. human rights watchdog's agreement to stop monitoring alleged abuses on the island, with Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque saying the decision left the United States "hanging and we yanked away the ladder."
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The new United Nations human rights  watchdog earned mixed reviews Tuesday after its treatment of  Cuba and Israel caused friction among major powers.
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One of five Cuban dissidents who have been released from prison this week has been told he should consider leaving the country. The Miami Herald reported Wednesday that writer Raul
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China remains "highly repressive," with routine violations of basic rights and widespread corruption despite promises of legal and political reform, the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro on Monday denied U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain's claim that Cuban agents helped torture American prisoners of war in Vietnam in the 1960s, calling the assertion "a strange legend."
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The most visible change in Cuba since an   ailing Fidel Castro handed power to his brother is that there   are fewer speeches, but a discreet transfer from personal to   institutional rule is underway, led by acting president Raul   Castro, Cuba experts say.
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Cuban officials told a group of visiting U.S. lawmakers that Fidel Castro does not have cancer or a terminal illness in the most comprehensive denial yet of rampant rumors about the ailing leader's health, members of a U.S. delegation said Sunday.
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Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international laws, a leading rights group says.
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Taking up Raul Castro's invitation to speak their minds without fear of reprisal, more Cubans have begun publicly complaining and challenging government policies on everything from limits on Internet access to travel restrictions.
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Cuba's communist government freed writer Raul Rivero and another dissident from prison Tuesday, the latest in a series of releases apparently aimed at cleaning up the island's human rights record.
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HAVANA -- Cuban officials told a group of visiting US legislators that Fidel Castro does not have cancer or a terminal illness.