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Filmmaker brings back shocking tale of Cuban prisons April 1 - Some are held captive in tiny, windowless cells; others are confined in over-crowded and squalid dormitories. Most go without basic health care and food staples; a few undergo regular beatings. All are denied basic religious freedoms, and none has been visited by members of the International Red Cross. Such is life for “enemies of the state” imprisoned in Cuba. We will excuse you if you think we are writing about terrorist suspects imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. We are not. AND The Castro regime reacts to the...

Thanks to the horrendous treatment they suffer at the hands of brutal jailers at Fidel Castro’s prisons, some prisoners in Cuba are resorting to extreme forms of protest -- including self-mutilation -- as a means to attract international attention to their plight.According to Miami’s El Nuevo Herald newspaper, protests have included: A lawyer and independent journalist imprisoned for two years carved the letters "I" and "L" into his forehead, proclaiming that he was "inocente," or "innocent," and demanding "libertad," or "liberty." According to the newspaper, one the cuts became badly infected. Prior to these acts of self-mutilation, El Nuevo reported...