Artist Rights
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Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida, a vocal critic of the government's suppression of artistic freedom, arrested on return from artist residency in Germany
The 27N member's colleagues believe he may have been tried in absentia for subverting the Cuban government.
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Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara taken to hospital by security forces eight days into a hunger strike
Otero Alcántara’s hunger strike and calls for free speech and artistic freedom in Cuba has drawn international attention