More than 100 people, including independent journalists and opposition activists, were arrested in Cuba after unprecedented anti-government ...
Those held included dissidents Guillermo Farinas, former political prisoner Jose Daniel Ferrer and artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara.He had been freed in May after spending almost a month in hospital, where he said he was taken forcibly and held incommunicado following a hunger strike to protest authorities seizing several of his works when he was arrested during a demonstration.
Also arrested on Monday was Camila Acosta, a Cuban correspondent for Spanish newspaper ABC, its foreign editor said. Spain's foreign ministry on Tuesday urged the Cuban authorities to respect the right to protest and demanded Cuba"immediately" releases Acosta.
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