Havana’s streets were calm Monday on the one-year anniversary of unprecedented anti-government demonstrations, with Cubans denouncing a preemptive security clampdown to avoid a repeat.
Amid fresh accusations of human rights abuses and calls from the US for the Cuban government to “respect” dissident voices, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said he was convinced the country would emerge from what he described as a “complex situation.”
There had been calls for new protests on the anniversary, but more than a dozen dissidents, artists and independent journalists wrote on Twitter that they had received warnings from the police not to leave their homes, from where
Cubans decry preemptive clampdown on protest anniversary
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