Cuban blogger beaten (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
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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 she refused to comply without the men showing their identification, the men forced them into the car in Havana's Vedado district.
"Help, these men want to kidnap us," Sanchez said she yelled to people standing close by as they were detained, but the men yelled back "they are counter-revolutionaries."
The men beat her and Pardo inside the car, then dropped them off near her apartment home in Havana, Sanchez said.
"I feel a lot of pain right now, all over my body," she said, adding that she sustained minor injuries to her back. Sanchez said she planned to admit herself to a hospital Saturday night.
Freedom of speech is limited in the island nation, whose media is controlled by the government.
Last year, Sanchez was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine. The government barred her from traveling to New York in October to receive a journalism award.

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[wong2717]

Joven, Valiente y Elocuente.

Adelante YOANI , el mundo te escucha !!!

[ferrer65]

Para que todos los comemierdas socialistas. ESTE ES EL PRODUCTO DEL GOBIERNO DE FIDEL! NO PERMITEN PRENSA LIBRE Y TRATAN DE CALLAR TODA OPINION CONTRARIA! Esto es el resultado de estos gobiernos. Para que sepan que en Cuba, no se permite nada.

[madelin78]

@gusanosratas

que pena me da con todas estas ratas comunistas. Yo soy uno de esos gusanos que tu dices pero tu no te das cuenta que cuando voy a cuba yo valgo mas que tu, entro a lugares que tu no puedes, y nunca podras entrar .y ahora cuando cuba cambie tu eres de las ratas que andas en jeans y nike. el carne del partido te lo puedes meter por el culo.

[wmbrown6]

@cubaninla - I'd've called Cuba under Castro an island gulag, but . . . there's also the little matter of Che Guevara having murdered anywhere from hundreds to thousands of political prisoners, either directly or through the executioners of his firing squads.

[FeignofCordor]

A brave woman I shall remember her in my prayers

[SIFILIS77FI]

PAYASA DESCARDA NO ENCUENTRAS COMO SACAR DOLARES

DE LAS MAFIAS DE MIAMI O LA C.I.A TE PAGE ALGUN BILLETE

LO QUE DEVERIAN ASER CON TIFGO ES COLGARTE DEL BOLLO POR LA PLAZA DE LA REVOLCION POR TRAIDORA Y VENDE PATRIA

[PERIZ99]

@gusanosratas Calma, Camarada. Estoy seguro que te brindara alegria el contarte que me cojo a tu madre todas las noches...Asi que de hoy en adelante, me puedes llamar Papi !! :D

[gusanosratas]

YOU FUCKIN CLAUON OJALA TE MATEN HIJA DE PUTA POR VENDE PATRIA

[whatorwellsaid]

viva Yoani Sanchez!

[ejune56]

Viva Yoani. Queremos mas, miles de jovenes como ella.

[lilataubenei]

si solo muy aciano hombres son gobernando un país, es siempre una ....?