Cuba Rounding Up More Dissidents
Cuba is cracking down again on dissidents, according to opposition leaders, who said Monday that the numbers held in prison rose from 87 in late November to a current figure of 102.
The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation said another 12 dissidents are currently free, but on conditional release.
The illegal but tolerated rights group, in a report sent to journalists, denounced the government of Raul Castro for its practice of rounding up and holding political opponents -- allegedly on spurious charges -- for hours or days at a time.
The Cuban leader, however, is seen as less punitive than his brother Fidel Castro, who, at the time he left office in 2006, had more than 300 political opponents behind bars.
Source: Agence France Presse
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