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Last month, award-winning Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was once again denied permission to leave the island, this time to receive the Maria Moors Cabot award for journalism. Less than three weeks later, Sanchez was arrested along with fellow blogger Orlando Luis Pardo as they neared an anti-violence demonstration.
Reuters reports that Sanchez and Pardo were both release shortly afterward, Sanchez with minor injuries, and that another blogger, Claudio Cadelo, was separately arrested and released. Sanchez has written about the incident (in Spanish) on her blog, Generacion Y. The blog Uncommon Sense has more information in English.
Update: Global Voices has translated a number of posts related to the incident. According to Yoani Sanchez and Claudia Cadelo, both bloggers were beaten during their detention.
- Published by Jillian York in: Threatened bloggers
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2 Responses to “Blogger Yoani Sanchez Briefly Detained”
Yoani S√°nchez and Orlando Luis Pardo were not only detained, but also beaten. You may find information in the last post in Yoani’s blog.
Yoani Sanchez and her fellow writers are brave heores, noiw attacked in a cowardly manner by Fidel and Raul’s henchmen. Picking up women and beating them in a car- what cowards the communistas are!!! And they are so very very afraid of the truth aren’t they? The truth scares them all to Hell. People able to freely express their minds just terriffies the Fidels of tyhis World. We need to all stand up next to the brave Yoanis in their struggle. voices for truth and freedomw of expression must never be extinguished!!! Viva Libertad!!!
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