Cuban dissidents have warned the European Union that lifting its economic sanctions on Cuba would increase human rights violations on the island.
Next week, the EU will review the sanctions it imposed on Cuba in 2003 for its jailing of 75 dissidents and which were suspended two years later at Spain's request. Havana wants all EU sanctions dropped before normal relations can be restored, but the EU Sri Lanka military says rebels sink navy ship ...
Nepal's king denies reports that he will go into exile ... is a few members short of the unanimous vote required for the permanent lifting of the sanctions. The Czech Republic is among the countries opposed to the move. Opposition groups there stress that Cuba still holds more than 200 political prisoners, including 55 of those jailed in the 2003 crackdown that triggered the EU sanctions.
(Deutsche Welle)
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