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'''Black Spring''' refers to the 2003 crackdown on [[Cuban dissidents]].<ref name="longblackspring">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/reports/2008/03/cuba-press-crackdown.php|title=Cuba's Long Black Spring|author=Carlos Lauria, Monica Campbell, and María Salazar|publisher=The Committee To Protect Journalists|date=March 18, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/blog/2009/03/the-black-spring-of-2003-a-former-cuban-prisoner-s.php|title=Black Spring of 2003: A former Cuban prisoner speaks|publisher=The Committee to Protect Journalists}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16771|title=Three years after "black spring" the independent press refuses to remain in the dark|publisher=The Reporters Without Borders}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Cuba_report.pdf|title=Cuba - No surrender by independent journalists, five years on from “black spring”|publisher=The Reporters Without Borders|date=March 2008}}</ref> The government imprisoned dissident thinkers, including 29 journalists<ref name="longblackspring"/>, librarians, human rights activists and democracy activists. Amnesty International adopted 75 Cubans as [[prisoner of conscience|prisoners of conscience]].<ref name="oneyeartoomany"/>
'''Black Spring''' refers to the 2003 crackdown on [[Cuban dissidents]].<ref name="longblackspring">{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/reports/2008/03/cuba-press-crackdown.php|title=Cuba's Long Black Spring|author=Carlos Lauria, Monica Campbell, and María Salazar|publisher=The Committee To Protect Journalists|date=March 18, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/blog/2009/03/the-black-spring-of-2003-a-former-cuban-prisoner-s.php|title=Black Spring of 2003: A former Cuban prisoner speaks|publisher=The Committee to Protect Journalists}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16771|title=Three years after "black spring" the independent press refuses to remain in the dark|publisher=The Reporters Without Borders}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Cuba_report.pdf|title=Cuba - No surrender by independent journalists, five years on from “black spring”|publisher=The Reporters Without Borders|date=March 2008}}</ref> The government imprisoned dissident, including 29 journalists<ref name="longblackspring"/>, librarians, human rights activists and democracy activists. Amnesty International adopted 75 Cubans as [[prisoner of conscience|prisoners of conscience]].<ref name="oneyeartoomany"/>


The crackdown on grassroots activists began on March 18 and lasted two days.<ref name="longblackspring"/>
The crackdown on grassroots activists began on March 18 and lasted two days.<ref name="longblackspring"/>

Revision as of 15:12, 23 October 2009

Black Spring refers to the 2003 crackdown on Cuban dissidents.[1][2][3][4] The government imprisoned dissident, including 29 journalists[1], librarians, human rights activists and democracy activists. Amnesty International adopted 75 Cubans as prisoners of conscience.[5]

The crackdown on grassroots activists began on March 18 and lasted two days.[1]

Responding to human rights violations, the European Union imposed sanctions on the Castro regime in 2003.[6] The European Union declared that the arrests "constituted a breach of the most elementary human rights, especially as regards freedom of expression and political association".[7]

Imprisoned people

Manuel Vázquez Portal received the International Press Freedom Award in 2003.[8] Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez received the same prize in 2008, while locked up in a maximum-security prison.[9]

List of 75 jailed dissidents and their sentences:[5]

Related movements

The wives of imprisoned activists formed a movement called Ladies in White. The movement received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 2005.

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ a b c Carlos Lauria, Monica Campbell, and María Salazar (March 18, 2008). "Cuba's Long Black Spring". The Committee To Protect Journalists.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Black Spring of 2003: A former Cuban prisoner speaks". The Committee to Protect Journalists.
  3. ^ "Three years after "black spring" the independent press refuses to remain in the dark". The Reporters Without Borders.
  4. ^ "Cuba - No surrender by independent journalists, five years on from "black spring"" (PDF). The Reporters Without Borders. March 2008.
  5. ^ a b "Cuba: One year too many: prisoners of conscience from the March 2003 crackdown". Amnesty International. 16 March 2004.
  6. ^ "EU lifts sanctions against Cuba". BBC. 20 June 2008.
  7. ^ "Sakharov nominee: Cuban women who protest against unjust imprisonment". European Parliament.
  8. ^ "Awards 2003 - Vazquez Portal". The Committee to Protect Journalists.
  9. ^ "Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, Founder and contributor, Grupo de Trabajo Decoro". The Committee to Protect Journalists.
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