• Submitted by: lena campos
• Society
• 11 / 09 / 2012

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Prominent dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez has been detained by Cuban security and released after a few hours.

Sanchez was taken into custody along with as many as 20 government opponents when they went to a police station to inquire about others who had been arrested.

By late Thursday night she was back on Twitter. She wrote that she was once again walking the streets of Havana after several hours of detention.

Sanchez wrote, "I am fine! Thanks for the solidarity."

The Inter American Press Association had just named Sanchez its delegate in Cuba and demanded her release.

Brief detentions of dissidents are increasingly common in Cuba, with the government calling them counter-revolutionaries. They are usually freed after a few hours or up to a day or two, and driven home by police.

Source: Associated Press