Cuba cracks down on dissidents who wish to assemble and speak freely.

The Cuban government acted quickly to detain dissidents asking for the release of political prisoners today.

Carlos Batista reports at Yahoo,

Authorities across Cuba have cracked down on dissidents, arresting dozens, keeping others from marching in Havana, and detaining an American human rights lawyer, activists said Sunday.

In the first such anti-dissident operation since Fidel Castro's death last month, President Raul Castro seemed to indicate the Americas' only one-party communist state was in no mood for dissent.

A roundup in the country's east snared dozens and derailed street protests planned to demand that political prisoners be freed.

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