BLOGGER SAYS SHE WAS BEATEN, DETAINED.
Secret police agents abducted and beat award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports elironicle the dark side of life in Cuba, on her way to a march for non-violence, she said, reports AFP (Nov. 9, 2009):
Three agents in street clothes snatched her and friend Orlando Luis Pardo off the street in the Havana district of Vedado. "They beat me and then they shoved me into a car head first. They did not give me any explanation at any time, but it is clear their goal was to stop us from taking part in me march," said Sanchez, who writes the blog "Generation Y." Two other friends of hers were ordered into police cars and released later, she added. In an item on her blog, which is often critical of the Americas' only one-party communist system in which only state media are legal, Sanchez wrote an expose under the headline "A Gangland-style Kidnapping";
"They squeezed my wrists very hard, beat me in the back in the kidney area, and when people stepped in to do something, they said we were counter-revolutionaries." Sanchez, winner of the Maria Moors Cabot 2009 award and Ortega y Gasset Prize awarded by Madrid's El Pais, said she was not seriously injured and was released half an hour after the arrest. "I am still really affected by all of this, but it is not going to stop me from writing my blog," Sanchez said. Cuban authorities say Sanchez and all other political dissidents are "mercenaries" in the pay of the United States and other western nations.
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