Human Rights Watch accuses the Cuban government of arresting people arbitrarily, mistreating detainees and holding sham trials in revenge for unprecedented street protests that erupted across the country this summer. "The government of Cuba, the Cuban dictatorship, has reacted with a brutal repression against those who have dared to speak out to demonstrate peacefully," Human Rights Watch director of the Americas Jose Miguel Vivanco says in a press conference from Miami. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES