Human Rights
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 00:00
The denial is alarming. It would represent a major recasting of press freedom doctrine if journalists, by establishing contacts with so-called terrorist organizations in the process of gathering news, open themselves to accusations of terrorist activitie
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 00:00
Es de la opinion de que Estados Unidos deberia aprovechar la actual coyuntura para "moverse" y autorizar los viajes de los turistas norteamericanos. A su juicio, esto seria el mejor servicio a los cambios en Cuba.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 00:00
CPJ is concerned that the State Department was influenced by Colombian officials who have a record of making unsubstantiated accusations against Morris because of his critical reporting on the government.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 00:00
The regime is unilaterally releasing 52 prisoners, but what is to keep them from simply arresting hundreds more? We cannot be fooled. And above all, we cannot alter our sanctions or policies towards Cuba based on this one superficial gesture.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 00:00
A relationship with the United States must be earned. Banishing political dissidents from their homeland hardly meets that test. This cheap political trick is surely of no solace for Gross and others still in jail.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 00:00
Let's not be fooled. The solution to the Cuban problem is free elections, the release of all political prisoners through free elections in Cuba .
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 00:00
This is the same regime that, last month, Fidel Castro himself compared Israel to Nazi Germany. And yet some want to give concessions to that regime. Some want to help that regime with billions of dollars.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 00:00
One of the more obvious and less risky steps the Administration could take is to throw its support behind a bill currently moving through Congress that would lift the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 00:00
What kind of message is the Obama administration sending? Work for human rights and you are not welcome here?
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 00:00
Watchdog groups say it's no more than an attempt by an angry government to discredit a crusading journalist.