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Cuba: San Isidro movement and allies under frightening levels of surveillance
Members of the San Isidro Movement – the group of Cuban artists, academics, and other alternative thinkers who garnered world attention by staging a rare protest outside the Ministry of Culture on 27 November – as well as independent journalists covering their story, are under frightening levels of surveillance and face arrest by police and state security officials if they leave their houses, which amounts to house arrest, said Amnesty International today.