More than 3,000 Cubans jailed for being 'pre-criminal social dangers' — activist
Between 3,000 and 5,000 Cubans have been found by the dictatorship's courts to be "pre-criminal social dangers," human rights activists Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz told Miscelaneas de Cuba in a recent interview.Those found to be social dangers, including many political opponents of the regime, have been sentenced to prison terms of as long as 4 years."All of them are technically innocent because by definition they have not committed any crime," said Sanchez, head of the un-official Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.Perhaps only George Orwell

Darsi Ferrer needs your support / Darsi Ferrer necesita su apoyo
Dr. Darsi Ferrer Cuban human rights activist Dr. Darsi Ferrer needs your support.A giant of the Cuban opposition, Ferrer has been unjustly imprisoned since July 21. He hasn't received a court hearing, but reports are that the authorities arrested him after he allegedly bought some construction materials on th

Dictatorship launches new counter-attack on Yoani Sanchez
Yoani Sanchez You must never believe anything you read in Cuba's Granma newspaper, part of the Castro regime's propaganda arm, but you can believe this about the attack on blogger Yoani Sanchez published in Friday's edition: It means the dictatorship is very afraid of this woman and what she represents.

Cuban prisoner Pacheco writes, 'Love your enemy'
From his prison cell, independent journalist Pablo Pacheco Avila writes that he will not let his captors defeat him. He will not let them harden his heart.It is an extraordinary message I am re-publishing in its entirety:Love Your Enemy Today, more than ever, I comprehended the points of coincidence between the South Africa of Nelson Mandela and the Cuba of Jose Marti. John Carlin’s book, “The Human Factor”, increasingly demonstrated thi

Prominent Cuban dissidents arrested
Four Cuban dissidents - former political prisoner Jorge Luis Garcia Perez "Antunez"; his wife Iris Tamara Perez Aguilera; human rights activist Julian Gurrea Deriet; and independent journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira - were arrested Wednesday afternoon, to block them from attending an event at the "House of the Political Prisoner" in Havana, according to the CIHPRESS news agency. Serpa said it was another case of catch, threaten and release by the Cuban police."The officers threatened me once again wi