Video: Dissidents arrested as Pope Francis celebrates his first Mass in Cuba - Telegraph
Cuban authorities prevented leading dissidents from meeting Pope Francisin Havana on Sunday, in a sign of the Communist regime’s rigid intolerance of political opposition.
Two well-known dissidents, Marta Beatriz Roque and Miriam Leiva, had been invited by the Vatican to attend a vespers service led by the Pope’s in Havana’s historic baroque cathedral. ...
The human rights group said “repressive tactics employed by the government include beatings, public acts of shaming, and the termination of employment.”
There are high hopes among many Cubans that the Pope’s visit will spur the Castro regime towards enacting more reforms and granting greater freedoms to its long-suffering people, who survive on an average monthly wage of $25. ...
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