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Elizardo Sanchez, the founder of a dissident Cuban human rights organisation, says between 50 and 100 people have been detained during papal visit. Nathan Frandino reports.
About 100 activists attempt to gather for an unauthorised protest against Covid vaccines and restrictions despite police presence and some arrests in Stuttgart, southern Germany. IMAGES
Managua,Jul 14 (EFE).- The cascade of arrests of assorted opposition political leaders in Nicaragua has motivated hundreds of dissidents and professionals to abandon the country or to remain abroad, less than four months before the presidential vote, when President Daniel Ortega, who has been in power continuously since 2007, will seek reelection.Opposition leaders, writers, journalists, physicians, attorneys, former contra rebels and their commanders, young people, laborers and peasants have all self-exiled or delayed their returns to Nicaragua due to reasons of personal safety amid a hostile political environment in which they could find themselves in prison, many of them have confirmed through various channels. (Camera: RENÉE LUCÍA RAMOS). B-ROLL OF THE BUS TERMINAL IN MANAGUA, NICARAGUA.
Havana, Jul 13 (EFE).- Two days after the historic mass protests in Cuba, the first death has been confirmed, the government insists on blaming the United States, the internet continues to be cut off throughout the island and the strong police presence is maintained, while family and friends search for the detained in the demonstrations.Over 150 people have been arrested so far, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), and activists denounced that there were arrests of the opposition, activists, and independent journalists in the two following days. The government of Cuba, however, has not given official figures of people who have been arrested. (Camera: ATAHUALPA AMERISE).SHOT LIST: AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH EDY SUAREZ , A FRIEND OF CUBAN INFLUENCER DINA STARS WHO HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY THE SECURITY FORCES AFTER POSTING A VIDEO OF HERSELF JOINING A PROTEST, IN HAVANA, CUBA.SOUND BITES: EDY SUAREZ, A FRIEND OF CUBAN INFLUENCER DINA STARS. TRANSLATIONS:- I was in Dina's house when Dina was on a live interview with a Spanish TV program called "Todo es mentira" or something like that. Then in the middle of an interview, someone knocked on the door, I didn't know who it was but I thought it must have been her close friends. - So, yes, we thought it was Dina's friends but when we opened the door and we saw that it was security forces and they said that they had to talk to her and take her away.
New York (USA), Dec 8 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Alba Vigaray) Five activists from the animal rights group PETA stripped naked in a freezing Times Square to denounce speciesism, as the belief is called. that animals are inferior to human beings, "taking advantage of the wave of social justice" that has been experienced in the US and worldwide with the pandemic.
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