UN Wire: Political Prisoners In Cuba Denied Rights, U.N. Envoy Says

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Tuesday, February 17, 2004

The condition of the 70 political prisoners in Cuba, sentenced in April on changes of working with U.S. diplomats against Cuban President Fidel Castro, is physically and mentally alarming, a U.N. envoy on human rights, Christine Chanet, says in a new report released today in Geneva.

According to Chanet, the prisoners, some of them over 60 years of age, are kept in very poor conditions, either in total isolation or along with common criminals. They are also often moved to prisons far away from their families, making visits difficult (BBC Brasil, Feb. 17, U.N. Wire translation).

http://www.unwire.org/News/328_426_13178.asp

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1. I guess I thought he was talking about Guantanamo...

Huh. Go figure.

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2. And in other news...

Pigs continue to remain grounded, hell still hot as ever and Bush is still a flaming hypocrite and a liar.