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By Ziva Sahl, on March 19, 2010, at 2:52 am
An inspirational new documentary brings to
U.S. audiences an American filmmaker's
message of Cuba's prisoners of conscience.
IN ALTUM PRODUCTIONS & THE PAN-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, Los Angeles (March 15, 2010) - - OSCAR'S CUBA, a documentary about Amnesty International's prisoner of conscience and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Dr. Oscar E. Biscet, will be pre-screened in [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on March 18, 2010, at 2:05 pm
During the 2003 Black Spring crackdown in Cuba, among the dissidents rounded up and arbitrarily sentenced, were fifteen librarians. They were members of an Independent Library movement that collected books , newspapers and periodicals banned by the regime, and loaned them to interested readers. In Cuba this is a crime.
At the time of their arrest, thousands of books and [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on February 26, 2010, at 11:41 pm
You'd think that 51 years of barbaric tyranny would be enough to capture world opinion. I came across these powerful words written to free Mandela; change a few of them and they more than apply to Cuba, except of course that there is NO international campaign to free Cuba's political prisoners, or to liberate [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on February 21, 2010, at 11:45 pm
Please sign this petition by clicking HERE:
I would like to bring to your attention the case of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, an imprisoned Cuban and human rights advocate. On a hunger strike since December 3, 2009, for purely requesting some of his most basic human rights, it appears Zapata Tamayo is on the brink of death, [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on January 29, 2010, at 11:34 pm
As good friend Joe Lima wrote in the email he sent with this photo, "The iron claw, la garra de hierro. Ruthless commie SOBs are not going to get away with this."
No, Joe they are not.
I thank God every day for the power of the Internet.
View photos of the injured Venezuelan protesters on Fox News, and spread the [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on December 27, 2009, at 1:34 pm
Via Capitol Hill Cubans, U.S Rep. Kendrick Meek on US-Cuba relations:
By Ziva Sahl, on December 25, 2009, at 1:58 pm
From Capital Hill Cubans:
at 12:26 AM Friday, December 25, 2009
Christmas is a time of giving. It's a time of selflessness.
As such, let's not forget all of the courageous pro-democracy leaders and human rights advocates separated from their loved ones, in distant political prisons, due to their selfless pursuit for freedom and justice.
Advocates such as Orlando [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on December 12, 2009, at 4:21 pm
On December 10, Conversa Cuba Companioni blog radio show covered Cuban human rights day 2009 with Jorge Utset of The Real Cuba, and co-host John O'Donnell Rosales. They were able to telephone Yusnaimy Jorge Soca, brave wife of jailed Afro Cuban civil rights leader Dr. Darsi Ferrer, and speak with her about the events of [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on December 10, 2009, at 5:13 pm
The state of Cuba celebrated this day by sending in castroite thugs to do the cowardly dicatator's dirty work: the beating of women, mass arrests, and contronting diplomats and dissidents.
From the radical's paradise, brought to you by Cubanews:
By Ziva Sahl, on December 10, 2009, at 2:42 pm
The castro tyrants are cowards who fear and beat women, The Real Cuba Reports:
**BREAKING NEWS** Dr. Dasi Ferrer's wife arrested
2:20 PM - I was able to get through and spoke with Yusnaimi's brother.
He said that she left for the march around 10:30 AM EST with another 3 persons.
Before she was able to reach the Parque [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on December 5, 2009, at 9:41 pm
Myself with Henry Agueros, Esteban Fernandez of Periódico 20 de Mayo, and Junta Patriotica members Joel Borges and Gilberto Perez at the Jose Marti Plaza in Los Angeles.
We read the manisfesto internacional por los Derechos Humanos en Cuba, 05-12-09.
Nosotros, cubanos en el exilio, unidos en una cadena internacional por la libertad y la democracia en [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on November 28, 2009, at 2:09 pm
The repression of all dissent in Cuba continues, via Capitol Hill Cubans:
Cuban VP's Son Arrested for Protest
at 1:37 PM Saturday, November 28, 2009
Juan Juan (JJ) Almeida, son of the recently deceased Cuban Vice-President and one of the original Comandantes of the Castro Revolution, Juan Almeida, was arrested this morning by the regime's state security.
At the time [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on November 23, 2009, at 1:14 pm
Dr. Ferrer's message regarding this years International Day of Human Rights activities, it's in Spanish, my rough translation is below the fold, and I invite corrections please:
“Celebración del Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos”
Por Dr. Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, preso de conciencia.
La Habana, Cuba. 20 de noviembre de 2009.
La adopción de la Declaración Universal de los [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on November 21, 2009, at 2:59 am
From Newsmax:
HAVANA -- The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
As he promised earlier on his blog, Reinaldo Escobar went to the intersection of Havana's 23rd and [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on November 16, 2009, at 1:24 am
This is why I blog for Cuba:
By Ziva Sahl, on November 8, 2009, at 1:30 pm
Via Capitol Hill Cubans:
November 7, 2009
(Washington, DC) – Cuban authorities should cease all attacks on human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and civic activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The international community should condemn attacks on those who peacefully exercise their basic rights to freedom of expression, opinion, and assembly in the strongest terms.
On November 6, [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on November 7, 2009, at 2:48 pm
The detention and beating of Yoani Sanchez and friends is business as usual for the Castro brothers. Their so-called people’s revolution has in fact been a half-century reign of terror against the Cuban people. Bombings, executions, hijackings, torture, imprisonment, the deliberate drowning of women and children, fear tactics imposed by Stasi style security agents with [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on October 11, 2009, at 1:08 pm
Now that Bush is gone, and we have the Peace Messiah occupying the White House, Albor Ruiz' breathless anticipation of the lifting of all travel restrictions to Cuba is palpable. He envisions a Cuba swarming with American tourists, never mind the recalcitrant anti-casto lobby.
Sadly, he doesn't mention the millions of Cubans held captive on the island gulag [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on September 25, 2009, at 3:12 pm
If I were in the DC area, I'd be out with a poster of Dr. Biscet and other Afro-Cuban political prisoners. What say you Danny boy, don't you think your Cuban brothers deserve freedom and human rights the same as you enjoy?
CUBA CULTURAL DAYS 2009 to feature DANNY GLOVER. Guest of honor will be Cuban [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on September 24, 2009, at 12:53 pm
From Stand for Freedom in Iran:
So far this year there have been 322 executions, almost as many as the whole of last year, when 381 Iranians were executed.
There is no freedom in religion in Iran, as evidenced by the continuing persecution of the Baha’i faith. Recently, seven Baha’is were arrested on charges of spying for [...]
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