Cuban blogger baffled (CNN)

Cuban blogger says she was detained and beaten by state security agents. CNN's David Ariosto reports. Blogger says Cuban agents beat her November 8, 2009 -- Updated 0646 GMT (1446 HKT) Havana resident Yoani Sanchez's blog, "Generation Y," draws about 1 million hits a month. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Government agents tried to get her into car, Yoani Sanchez says "Generation Y" blogger known for posts critical of life in Cuba She'd been warned her blog goes too far, nonprofit group says Time magazine named Sanchez among world's most influential people in 2008 RELATED TOPICS Cuba Blogs and Blogging Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A Cuban woman known for writing critical blogs about life in the communist nation said she was briefly detained by agents Friday in the capital. Yoani Sanchez told CNN in a telephone interview that she and fellow blogger, Orlando Luis Pardo, were forced into a black Chinese-made car and assaulted by three state security agents on her way to a march against violence Friday evening. Sanchez gained international attention for her blog "Generation Y," which gets about 1 million hits a month. Read Yoani Sanchez's blog CNN was unable to independently verify the incident. The Cuban government has not commented on these accusations. A third Cuban blogger, Claudia Cadelo, was also detained and taken away in a separate car, Sanchez said. "Three large men in plainclothes" ordered Sanchez and Pardo to get in the car in an effort to keep them away from the march, she said. When ...



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