In Cuba, families fret over loved ones held after historic protests 24 Jul 2021 / 10:28 H. Boats with Cuban and US flags part of a Cuban support flotilla depart from Bayside in downtown Miami for Cuba, on July 23, 2021. The flotilla plans to stay in international waters off Cuba to let island residents know they have support in Florida. -AFP
HAVANA: Manuel Diaz is among several people detained for nearly two weeks since joining unprecedented anti-government protests in Cuba. His family is worried.
According to his lawyer, 59-year-old Diaz needs two or three witnesses to testify that his protest had been peaceful if he wishes to qualify for bail ahead of his trial.
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U.S. sanctions Cuban security minister, special forces unit over protest crackdown
The move marked the first concrete steps by President Joe Biden s administration to apply pressure on Cuba s Communist government as it faces calls from U.S. lawmakers and the Cuban-American community to show greater support for the biggest protests to hit the island in decades.
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WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Cuban security minister and an interior ministry special forces unit for alleged human rights abuses in a crackdown on anti-government protests earlier this month.
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TAMPA, Fla. - Alian Collazo came to Florida on a raft from Cuba at the age of eight. On Monday, he will voyage from Largo to Washington to exercise a right family still in Cuba don t have: The right to demonstrate. He will protest on behalf of the Cuban people. They have been yelling liberated which means freedom, he said. Abajo la dictatura. Down with the dictatorship.
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced new sanctions Thursday against a Cuban official and a government special brigade that it says was involved in human rights abuses during a government crackdown on protests on the island earlier this month.
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The Biden administration announced new sanctions Thursday against a Cuban official and a government special brigade that it says was involved in human rights abuses during a government crackdown on protests on the island earlier this month.
The Treasury Department s Office of Foreign Assets Control listed Alvaro Lopez Miera, a Cuban military and political leader, and the Brigada Especial Nacional del Ministerio del Interior, or Interior Ministry Special Brigade, as among those who will face the latest sanctions.
Treasury said in a statement that Lopez Miera “has played an integral role in the repression of ongoing protests in Cuba. Cuba’s Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, which is led to by Lopez Miera, and other Cuban government’s security services have attacked protesters and arrested or disappeared over 100 protesters in an attempt