Government puts pressure on foreigners to restrict Internet access

Government puts pressure on foreigners to restrict Internet access

HAVANA, Cuba - July 5 (Juan González Febles www.cubanet.org) - Several
foreigners living in Havana have complained that State Security police
have pressured them not to allow Cuban acquaintances to use their
Internet access.

Internet access is severely restricted in Cuba, but is available freely
to foreigners, albeit at exorbitant prices.

Often foreign residents allow their Cuban friends, in many cases
political dissidents, to log on to the net.

Foreign residents who allowed independent journalist Tania Díaz Castro
and government opponent Vladimiro Roca Antúnez to use their connections
to the net say they were summoned by State Security police, who put
pressure on them not to allow the Cubans, whom they labeled
"counter-revolutionary" to log on from their accounts.

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