Cuban Dissidents Held
<i> Reuters</i>
HAVANA —
Cuban authorities have arrested up to a dozen people in order to prevent trouble at the upcoming trial of the island’s best-known jailed political activists, dissident groups said Saturday.
A trial on sedition charges is set to begin Monday for four prominent dissident leaders whose 19-month imprisonment has been a focus of foreign pressure on the Cuban government.
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