Washington: The group warned of an increase in arrests, beatings and harassment of dissidents.
Last week, American lawmakers visiting Havana said the United States would continue to push Cuba on its human rights record.
The next round of talks on normalizing relations is scheduled to start on Friday in the US capital.
The top US diplomat for Latin America expressed concern on Monday about the "violent silencing" of dissidents in Cuba, days before the resumption of US-Cuba talks.
Roberta Jacobson, who last month led the first negotiations on restoring diplomatic ties between Washington and Havana after decades in the deep freeze, tweeted,
On Sunday, the dissident group Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) said more than 200 opponents of Cuba's communist government were arrested, including in the capital Havana, before being released a few hours later.
Last week, American lawmakers visiting Havana said the United States would continue to push Cuba on its human rights record.
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