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| Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones
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| from the most-of-us-would-be-guilty-of-that-crime dept.
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| posted by kdawson on Monday December 14, @19:15 (Censorship)
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|https://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/2315233/Cuba-Jails-US-Worker-Handing-Out-Lapto|
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eldavojohn writes "An American citizen working as a contractor for the
United States Agency for International Development has been [0]arrested
for giving away laptops and cellphones in Cuba. The intent was to enable
activists to connect with each other and spread information of what's
happening inside Cuba. From the article: 'Cellphones and laptops are
legal in Cuba, though they are new and coveted commodities in a country
where the average worker's wage is $15 a month. The Cuban government
granted ordinary citizens the right to buy cellphones just last year;
they are used mostly for texting, because a 15-minute phone conversation
would eat up a day's wages.' A Representative on the House Foreign
Affairs Committee said the arrest was 'no surprise' while a human rights
watch group cited a [1]report outlining the Cuban Criminal Code offense
of 'dangerousness,' which is most likely the one for which this
individual was detained. There is at present no way to contact the
individual nor official word on why he was detained." The article quotes
an actvist with Human Rights Watch who said that "any solution to the
contractor's case would probably be political" and that "the Cuban
government often provokes a negative reaction in the United States just
as [the two] countries begin to move toward more dialogue."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/12/14/2315233
Links:
0.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/12/AR2009121201549_pf.html
1.http://www.hrw.org/en/node/86554
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