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Cuba: government opposes bloggers meet-up

Written byNicholas Laughlin
Posted 3 December 2008 20:49 GMT

Cuban blogger (and 2008 Best of Blogs winner) Yoani Sanchez of Generación Y reports [ES] on her meeting with two interior ministry officials, after she was summoned to a police station. When they told her to cancel a planned bloggers’ meet-up, she asked for the order in writing. Babalu Blog commends her courage.

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