Cuba is driving dissidents off island with threats of violence and jail, report finds

Thirty-five activists, journalists and artists have been forced to leave the island in two years, human rights group says

Cuba's state security is pressuring dissidents to go into exile in its attempt to weaken opposition on the Communist-run island, according to a new report by a non-governmental human rights organization.

The Madrid-based Cuban Prisoners Defenders released a 259-page report that named 35 activists, independent journalists and artists whom authorities had forced to leave the country over the past two years, telling them never to return.