Cuba Releases Anti-Castro Blogger

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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 3:24PM EDT / Published Oct. 06, 2012 7:48AM EDT

Javier Galeano

Cuban officials released an anti-Castro blogger Friday after she spent 30 hours in jail for planning to cover the criminal trial of a Spanish politician. Although the current Cuban regime has released many political prisoners, it has also taken to arresting its critics for brief periods to silence negative publicity. This happened again this weekend when Cuba’s best-known blogger, Yoani Sánchez, was arrested Thursday as she planned to cover the trial of Angel Carromero, who is accused of killing a Cuban dissident in a car crash this summer. As news of Sanchez’s arrest spread worldwide, she was released.

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Cuba Releases Anti-Castro Blogger

Javier Galeano