{"id":61273,"date":"2020-02-08T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T04:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61273"},"modified":"2020-02-08T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T04:56:00","slug":"cuban-dissident-freed-but-cannot-leave-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61273","title":{"rendered":"Cuban dissident freed but cannot leave country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/api\/res\/1.2\/jJG8NfAFM4D2laCS63r3GA--\/YXBwaWQ9YXBlY21lZGlhO3NtPTE7dz03Njg7aD01Mjc7aWw9cGxhbmU-\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_sg\/News\/AFP\/53d924f90bf3348f2836f3c4d52072c6e4e47dde.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HAVANA, Feb 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An award-winning Cuban dissident who was detained this week announced that he has been released without charge but barred from a planned trip to Europe for a meeting on human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guillermo Farinas, a 58-year-old psychologist, is a leading voice in the opposition to Cuba&#8217;s communist government and won the European Parliament&#8217;s Sakharov human rights prize in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farinas was arrested Tuesday in the central city of Santa Clara, where he lives, as he planned to go to the Spanish Embassy in Havana to pick up travel documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been due to take part in a meeting of the human rights commission of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The main reason for my arrest was to keep me from traveling to Europe,&#8221; Farinas said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the authorities freed him Thursday night but barred him from leaving Santa Clara under threat of another arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farinas added that Cuban authorities fear he uses trips to Europe to sabotage relations with the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farinas waged a 54-day hunger strike in 2016 because, he said, jailed dissidents in Cuba are tortured, beaten and threatened with death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, Farinas has gone on several such strikes to draw attention to what he says are oppressive policies carried out by the Havana regime. These included a 2010 fast that left him near death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cuban government denies it is holding any political prisoners. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas HAVANA, Feb 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An award-winning Cuban dissident who was detained this week announced that he has been released without charge but barred from a planned trip to Europe for a meeting on human rights. Guillermo Farinas, a 58-year-old psychologist, is a leading voice in the opposition to Cuba&#8217;s communist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}