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HAVANA (AP) - The Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday denounced the arrest and sentencing of an independent Cuban journalist who wrote critical articles about dissident groups and the hardships of island life.
Oscar Sanchez Madan, 44, was arrested April 13 and tried and sentenced to four years in prison that same day for the vaguely worded charge of "social dangerousness," said veteran human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez, basing his report on information from Oscar Sanchez's family in the central province of Matanzas.
Joel Simon, executive director of the New York-based press advocacy group said in a statement Thursday that, "it is outrageous that Cuba has once again thrown a journalist in jail after a summary trial or a trumped up charge."
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