United States deeply concerned by Cuba arrests The United States has said it is deeply concerned about reports that several high-profile Cuban dissidents were detained on Tuesday. Activists say police made the arrests hours ahead of a planned protest in Havanas Revolution Square. Organisers said the protest was aimed at testing the tolerance of Cubas communist government. On 17 December, the US and Cuba announced they would normalise relations. Despite the historic announcement, Washington said earlier today that it would continue to press the Cuban government to uphold its international obligations. We strongly condemn the Cuban governments continued harassment and repeated use of arbitrary detention, at times with violence, to silence critics, read the statement. #Cuba #Cuban #USA #UnitedStates #politics #protests #Havana #RevolutionSquare #freedom #FreedomOfSpeech #government
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:04:03 +0000
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