"People in a number of countries in the Americas faced violence and other abuses in the enforcement of harsh COVID-19 lockdowns.
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Freedom of expression suffered elsewhere in the region. Cuban authorities unleashed a wave of intimidation, arbitrary detentions, and illegal house arrests against independent journalists and a group of dissident artists with whom the government had at one point promised an open dialogue. A harsh new cybercrimes law in Nicaragua mandated prison sentences for spreading 'false information' online."
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