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Home computer ban lifted


year 2008 Top ^

May.2
  The first legalised home computers have gone on sale, but a ban remains on internet access

Feb.28
   UN: Cuba has signed two legally binding agreements, just days after Raul Castro was sworn in as the new president
Feb.19   US urges reform as Castro quits
   Washington: Bush has called on Cuba to prepare for free elections after Fidel's announcement that he is retiring on health grounds


year 2007 Top ^

Dec.10   Cuba makes human rights promise
  Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque: Cuba is going to sign up to two major United Nations agreements on civil and political rights


year 2006 Top ^

Dec.6 Raul Castro frees ailing dissident from jail
  Cuba freed Hector Palacios on medical parole in the first release of a government opponent under acting President Aug.4 Cuba dismisses US democracy call
  Calls by Bush to work for democratic change have been dismissed as 'the epitome of delirium' by Cuban TV Aug.3   Bush calls for democracy in Cuba
   Washington: President has pledged support for Cubans who sought to build a transitional government
Jul.10 US in $80m 'Cuba democracy' plan   Washington: Bush has approved a fund proposed by Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba Feb.6 Cuba protest flags block U.S. message  Scores of giant black flags are blocking an electronic sign on the building's façade

year 2005 Top ^

Dec.13 Cuba 'bars women from prize trip'
  A group of women have been barred by their government from travelling to Europe to collect a human rights award Jul.22 Dissidents held in crackdown  At least 20 dissidents have been detained as part of a crackdown against the political opposition Apr.14   Cuba rejects UN rights resolution  Cuba will not co-operate with a resolution passed against it by the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva

year 2004 Top ^

Jan.10   Crack down on internet use  A new law will make access to the internet more difficult for Cubans

year 2003 Top ^

Apr.26   Pope condemns Cuban executions   Vatican: John Paul II has added his voice to condemnations of crackdown on dissidents Apr.22   Lawsuit follows fear, death  Government's agents say opposition is finished Jan.6   Powell meets leading Cuban dissident   Washington: U.S. Secretary of State sought to energize Project Varela opposition campaign by meeting Oswaldo Paya

year 2002 Top ^

Nov.6 Ex-prisoner calls for probe of prisons  Oscar Elias Biscet, freed after 3 years behind bars, called for an investigation of Cuban prison conditions May.10 Dissidents call for political reform  A petition to the National Assembly is calling for an end to four decades of one-party rule

year 2001 Top ^

Feb.5 Cuba frees jailed Czechs
  2 prominent Czech were freed after they admitted they broke law by meeting with dissidents Feb.3   Castro accuses Czechs of spying  Cuban leader Fidel said the Czech embassy was a cave of spies. Cuba continued to hold 2 Czech officials Jan.17 Czech citizens to be tried  Former finance Minister and current member of parliament accused of conspiring against the revolution

year 2000 Top ^





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