The lawyer who fought to free Guantánamo’s highest-value detainee-podcast

Nancy Hollander has taken on many difficult cases in her career, but none quite like that of the Guantánamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Salahi By the time Mohamedou Ould Salahi was brought from his home in Mauritania to the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba in 2002, he had already experienced a series of harsh interrogations …

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Reforma legislativa en Cuba pudiera saldar deudas con activismo ciudadano

El 26 de febrero el Consejo de Estado aprobó el decreto-ley de Bienestar Animal, una normativa largamente reclamada por voluntarios y protectores que llegaron incluso a marchar y protestar de manera pacífica en contra del maltrato, abandono y sacrificio de animales recogidos de las calles. La entrada Reforma legislativa en Cuba pudiera saldar deudas con …

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Prison sentences of up to 24 years for people allegedly implicated in train derailment in Cuba

On December 24, the oral and public trial corresponding to case number four of 2020 was held, for the crimes of sabotage and other acts against State Security, in which Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Yoandris Ortiz, Raidel Sánchez, Joaquín Camejo and Lázaro Yerson appeared as defendants, according to a note from that judicial institution, the Agencia …

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