Cuba
Future of Guantánamo detainees must be resolved - 18 November 2009
President Barack Obama has acknowledged that his administration will not meet his deadline for the closure of the military facility in Cuba.Obama should follow UN lead on Cuba embargo - 29 October 2009
In a record vote of the UN General Assembly, 187 countries said the US should end its embargo against CubaObama should follow UN lead on Cuba embargo - 29 October 2009
Barack Obama should follow the lead of the UN General Assembly and take all necessary steps to end its economic embargo against Cuba, said Amnesty International today after the UN body condemned US sanctions against the island.Cuba: Blogger denied freedom to travel outside Cuba - 13 October 2009
Amnesty International calls on the government of Cuba to lift the travel on Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, preventing her from travelling to New York to receive an international journalism award.
Blogger denied freedom to travel outside Cuba - 13 October 2009
Yoani Sánchez was due to accept an award for her journalism in New York. This is the fourth time she has been refused permission by the authorities to travel outside Cuba in the past two years.Obama renews Cuba trade embargo - 15 September 2009
US President Barack Obama has extended the trade embargo against Cuba - missing an opportunity to improve the human rights situation for people on the island.
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Restrictions on freedom of expression, association and assembly persisted. Journalists and political dissidents faced harassment and intimidation by security officials.