Cuba cracks down on free speech

[Onlooker]

The Human Rights Group of Cuba released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the Cuban government has gone to compile information on Cubans suspected of being threats simply for expressing controversial opinions.

Two documents relating to anti-government protests, and a vegan rally, prove the government has been "spying" on Cubans, the Human Rights Group said.

For example, more than two dozen government surveillance photographs show 22-year-old Frida Rojas of Havana, a strict vegetarian, and other vegans picketing against meat eating, in December 2003. They staged their protest outside a Havana food packing plant.

An undercover Cuban agent was assigned to conduct surveillance of the protest and the protestors, and take the photographs. The agent arrested Rojas and another protester after he saw Rojas approach him and write down, on a piece of paper, the license plate number of his unmarked government car.

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75151

[ret5hd]

1. oh, you shouldn;t have given the joke away so soon!...

this could have gotten hilarious!

[annabanana]

2. Seriously though...

This story should be all over the media (and in my youth, it WOULD have been). Imagine being arrested for writing down a license plate number. I hope the blogs pick it up...

[killbotfactory]

3. Hahahahhahha

Good one!

[Skinner]

4. Clever.

A very clever way of making the point. I'm impressed.

(To those of you who don't get it... Click the link.)

[Onlooker]

8. Thanks! n/t

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. from the link

"We have heard of not a single, government surveillance of a pro-war group," Weber said. "And I doubt we will ever hear of a single surveillance of a pro-war group."

<<<I'm looking for a small pro bush/war pic>>>

[Stockholm]

6. You are plain evil

I love it :evilgrin:

[matcom]

7. kick