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The daughter of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá is calling for an international investigation into the car crash that killed her father. She said that two months before the fatal incident, for which the Payá family believes the Cuban government was responsible, someone forced her father’s car into another accident.

“Rosa María Payá said that while Raúl Castro’s new policies on relaxing some travel restrictions for Cuba and for private enterprise have come across to some as an step toward making democratic reforms, repression actually is on the rise.

"‘Our mission is to call for a truly independent investigation,’ [Payá] said, ‘and at the same to call global attention to the way the Cuban government will stop at nothing to silence and mistreat its critics and opponents.’”