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Cuban Blogger Reports Beating

Havana : Cuba | about 1 month ago  
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Secret police agents abducted and beat the blogger Yoani Sánchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of life in Communist Cuba, on her way to a march for nonviolence, she said Saturday. Three agents in street clothes took her and a friend, Orlando Luis Pardo, off the street in Havana, she said....
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  • News Source: The Guardian | 17 days ago
    Cuba 's most prominent dissident blogger, Yoani Sánchez, said she was abducted, beaten and threatened by state security agents in Havana. Three men forced her and another blogger, Orlando Luis Pardo, into an unmarked car, roughed them up and warned...
  • News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 17 days ago
    Secret police agents abducted and beat the blogger Yoani Sánchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of life in Communist Cuba, on her way to a march for nonviolence, she said Saturday. Three agents in street clothes took her and a friend,...
  • News Source: The Age | 17 days ago
    Three agents in street clothes snatched her and friend Orlando Luis Pardo off the street in the Havana district of Vedado. "They beat me and then they shoved me into a car head first. They did not give me any explanation at any time, but it is clear...
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