Carlos Lauria, coordinator of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) speaks during a press conference in Madrid, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for the immediate release of some 20 journalists serving jail terms in Cuba. Tuesday’s appeal comes five years after the journalists were rounded up as part of a crackdown against dissidents on the communist-run island. CPJ said there are 22 journalists in Cuban jails sentenced to long prison terms, 20 of them since 2003.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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