Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez released after hours-long detention

Cuba's best-known blogger was arrested Thursday to keep her from covering a sensitive criminal trial involving the death of a famous dissident. But then the world noticed.
News agencies blogged about the details of the arrest. Human rights groups condemned it. By late Friday, the blogger, Yoani Sanchez, was released, miamiherald.com reported.

The detention of Sanchez, who said she was held for about 30 hours, became a telling footnote in the case of Angel Carromero, a conservative Spanish politician who is accused of causing the death of a Cuban dissident in a car crash this summer.

Sanchez was arrested along with her husband and fellow blogger, Reinaldo Escobar, and a number of other antigovernment figures in the city of Bayamo, about 400 miles east of Havana.
Sanchez had traveled to Bayamo to cover the Carromero's trial, which began Friday.
Carromero, a member of Spain's conservative Popular Party, crashed his rental car in the Bayamo area while visiting the island July 22. Cuban officials have accused him of speeding and causing the deaths of dissident Oswaldo Paya and another Cuban activist, who were riding in the car. Carromero faces up to 10 years in prison.
Early Friday, the pro-government blog www.yohandry.com asserted that Sanchez had traveled to Bayamo “to start a provocation and a media show to harm the proper conduct of the trial.”