MIAMI– A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country. Alcántara, 38, was greeted at the airport by a crowd that cheered, sang and raised their phones in the air to take
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Cuban government’s “brutal repression against its own people five years ago is another reminder of the unique misery and evil that is innate to the communist system.” “Otero Alcántara’s only ‘crime’ was refusing to remain silent and use his art to demand the basic freedoms that Cubans
Dong, a police officer turned human rights activist, has been jailed in China several times for his activism. In 1999, Dong was fired from the police after 13 years because he signed a petition to mark the 10th anniversary of the brutal Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. Then, in 2001, he was jailed for three
Lam was taken to Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei on Tuesday and later fell into a coma, the South China Morning Post reported, citing local media. He died late Thursday. In a Facebook post, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te wrote that he was “deeply saddened” by Lam’s death and sent condolences to her family and friends.