Yoani Sánchez

Although Apparently Not Tied To Her Writings, Yoani Sanchez, Cuban Blogger, Abducted And Beaten

Grandgood (Free subscription) | yesterday

Top Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez Detained, Beaten

Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

MIAMI HERALD : Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said Friday she and another blogger were punched and thrown violently into a car by presumed state security agents as they walked to participate in a peaceful march in downtown Havana. Sánchez, the best-known Cuban blogger on the island and off, said she and bloggers Pardo and Claudia Cadelo and a woman friend were walking to join a "march...

• Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez Detained, Beaten - CARPE DIEM

Yoani Sanchez: Blaming the Victim

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

After an attack there are certain myopics who blame the victim herself for what happened. If it is a woman who has been raped,...

Both NJ Senators join a bi-partisan condemnation of the beating of an anti-Castro blogger in Havana

Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Senators Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg have joined a bi-partisan effort to condemn the self-reported attack of an anti-communist blogger in Cuba. Ironically, the blogger, Yoani Sanchez, says she and fellow bloggers Claudia Cadelo and Orlando Lu's Pardo Lazo were walking to an anti-violence demonstration on Friday in Havana when they say they were briefly detained, and beaten by what is implied...

Yoani Sánchez beaten by suspected Cuban state security

Politics.ie (Free subscription) | yesterday

Twenty years ago today was red letter day in the World's history as the Berlin Wall fell it signified the end of the horrific tyranny of communism. ...

Blogacción

Bark Bark Woof Woof (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

The Miami Herald reports that bloggers in Cuba are beginning to get noticed. Cuba's blogosphere is tiny for an island of 11.5 million people. About 200 blogs have official approval and 100 don't, among them dissident journalists and human rights activists, according to a recent report by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. But about 15 bloggers have captured widespread attention at...

Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez attacked on way to march

newsjiffy (Free subscription) | yesterday

Cuban blogger Yonai Sanchez has been attacked while on her way with three friends to a march of young Cubans opposed to the Communist regime. It is presumed that the attackers, who tried to force them into a car, were state security agents. Whenthe four refused to get into the car, they were brutally attacked. Sanchez and one of her friends were thrown in and driven a short distance and then thrown...

Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez now target of Castro's thugs

lgstarr (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

Here's proof that Michael Moore--and all those other ignorant fools who worship dictators--is full of shit

US condemns Cuba over blogger beatings

France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday

The United States said it "strongly deplores" the forcible detention and beating last week of three Cuban bloggers on their way to a peaceful march in Havana. Award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, was detained and beaten along with two fellow bloggers by Cuban secret police on November 6. "We have expressed...

Holding unfriendly regimes accountable for human rights

Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

A Cuban man in the town of Vinales. Photo: Flickr user alschim The U.S. State Department has deplored several recent assaults on bloggers who have been critical of Cuba's government. A notable case was Yoani Sanchez, who has won acclaim for her blog Generation Y. Sanchez said that two agents stopped her and another blogger last Friday, [...]

Credit Where Credit is Due

Silly Little Country (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Good on Obama and Hillary ! We have expressed to the Cuban government our deep concern with the assaults, and we are following up with inquiries to Yoani Sanchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, and Claudia Cadelo regarding their personal well-being and access to medical care.

Cuban blogger was detained and beaten by state security agents

Mass Media News (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

HAVANA, Nov 9 – Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez vowed on Monday to keep on writing her Generation Y Web log, which is critical of the government, despite being beaten last week by men she... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Still think Fidel is a rather nice bloke Colin?

The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday

I reported on dire MP Colin Burgon , who put forward an EDM(Early Day Motion) praising the murderous dictator Fidel Link to the EDM's page. Now we see the real face of the socialist gulag that is Fidel's Cuba. I have e-mailed each and every MP who signed that EDM and did that when I first posted on this EDM. Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said Friday she and another blogger were punched and thrown...

Anti-Castro Cuban Blogger Arrested, Beaten and Released

Saber Point (Free subscription) | yesterday

I first blogged about Yoani Sanchez in June of 2008. Now she's in the news. From the Miami Herald: Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said Friday she and another blogger were punched and thrown violently into a car by presumed state security agents as they walked to participate in a peaceful march in downtown Havana. ``No blood, but black and blues, punches, pulled hairs, blows to the head, kidneys,...

• Cuban Dissident Beaten by Security Forces - The Debate Link

Communism lives

Daimnation! (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Berlin Wall was toppled twenty years ago today, but it's always 1988 in one of Canada's favorite vacation spots: Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said Friday she and another blogger were punched and thrown violently into a car by...