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Cuban blogger claims she was roughed up by state agents

Source: The Guardian

Nov 08, 2009

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Yoani Sánchez says she was abducted, beaten and threatened for criticising Cuba's communist government

Cuba's most prominent dissident blogger, Yoani Sánchez, said she was abducted, beaten and threatened by state security agents in Havana.

Three men forced her and another blogger, Orlando Luis Pardo, into an unmarked car, roughed them up and warned they had gone too far in criticising the island's communist government, she said.

"One man put his knee on my chest and the other, from the seat next to me, was punching me in the face," according to a blog posted after Friday's incident in Vedado, near downtown Havana.

The men wore civilian clothes but Sánchez said there was no doubt they were state agents. They warned bystanders not to intervene, shouting: "Stay out of it, these are counter-revolutionaries."

There was no immediate reaction from state media and no way to independently verify the account.

The 34-year-old author's wry and sometimes caustic observations about life under Castro rule attract about 1m hits a month, mostly from abroad, and have garnered severa

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