Sunday, 23. March 2003

Critics Blast Cuban Crackdown


Cuba's move to arrest more than 70 dissidents this week was timed to coincide with the focus of worldwide media attention on the Iraq conflict, U.S. government and media watchdog groups charged Friday.

The wave of arrests throughout the country started on March 18, when police rounded up the Communist regime's most vocal critics at their homes and seized computer equipment and printed literature.

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