Rachel, Lynne Stewart is, of course, entitled to her views, however repulsive they are, but I think ’sinister’ is not a bad word to describe the person who said this:

“I don’t have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people’s revolution.”

The ‘certainly’ in front of ‘Fidel’s’ name is a particularly revolting touch.