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Islamic oppresion

Paul | 09.02.2006 14:56

Many are concerned about oppression of Islam in the Press, are they concerned about the physical repression of prisoners in Cuba ?

I believe there are many in the UK who want to know about the human rights abuses in Cuba, people who want to protest the torture of political prisoners and perhaps lobby their MP's to try and get it stopped. Some of the editors of Indymedia here in the UK don't want that, they hide all reference to political repression in Cuba and post disinformation about the regular weekly protest that takes place at the Cuban embassy in London. Most recently this was seen when every one of the articles I posted detailing torture and political repression was quickly hidden or removed. The reason or excuse given ?

I quote,

"Another 10 posts from the same source as the fictitious demo outside the Cuban Embassy some months back. We have had a succession of Cuban spams which are designed to attack Indymedia and push an agenda about Cuba being the most
uncivilised country in the world or some such nonsense.

Therefore hideen under the following guideline:

Disruptive : Contributions by individuals who habitually publish above mentioned
discouraged content. Posts where topical or regional selections disrupts the
utility of the sub pages (ie spamming regional and topic selections).
also inaccurate/repeated and hierarchy

Regular readers might wish to ask why:

A regular demo is described as "fictitious"
Reports of prisoner abuse in Cuban jails by independent human rights monitors are called "spam"
How the above reports "attack Indymedia"
Encouraging protest about human rights abuses "pushes an agenda"
How any of the above could have broken ANY of the Guidelines listed.

Paul