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Not who you're looking for? Others named Black Spring: series of violent disturbances and political demonstrations · novel by Henry Miller · 1991 song performed by Lush
Black Spring refers to the 2003 crackdown on Cuban dissidents. The government imprisoned 75 dissidents, including 29 journalists on the basis that they were acting as agents of the United States by accepting aid from the US government. Amnesty International described the 75 Cubans as prisoners of conscience. The Cuban government said "the 75 individuals arrested, tried and sentenced in March/April 2003 ... are demonstrably not independent thinkers, writers or human rights activists, but persons directly in the pay of the US government. ... [T]hose who were arrested and tried were charged not with criticizing the government, but for receiving American government funds and collaborating with U.S diplomats."
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