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HAVANA - Cuba has denounced online social network Facebook and Google-owned video sharing network YouTube for closing its account and censoring video links from the two websites.
HAVANA - Cuba's only death row inmate will not receive capital punishment, the country's highest court decided, according to dissident groups.
HAVANA - No one has ever been tortured in Cuba, said retired president Fidel Castro while confronting international and opposition criticism of the Cuban government following last week's death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo after an 85-day hunger strike.
HAVANA - US President Barack Omaba has assured Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez that Washington wants to see "increased respect for human rights and for political and economic freedoms" on the communist-ruled island, the blogger has said.
HAVANA - Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, winner of several international prizes, said that she was detained for 20 minutes and mistreated by police while on her way to a non-violent demonstration.
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