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Cuban President on watchdog list

Published:Monday | May 3, 2010 | 5:57 PM

Cuban President Raul Castro has been included on a list dubbed the world\'s 40 worst predators of the press.



The list which was put together by watchdog group Reporters Without Borders was released earlier today to mark World Press Freedom Day.



It includes politicians, religious leaders and militias.



According to the Paris-based watchdog the 40 are powerful, dangerous, violent and above the law.



Seventeen presidents and several heads of government are on the list including China\'s Hu Jintao, Iran\'s Mahmoud Ahmadinejehad, the presidents of Rwanda and Cuba, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.