Would a dissident in UAE or Saudi Arabia be able to speak as freely as this dissident in Cuba? And to a Western reporter?

"“He betrayed those of us who are struggling against the Cuban government,” Ángel Moya, a former political prisoner whose wife, Berta Soler, leads the Ladies in White, said of Mr. Obama’s decision to begin normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba. “There will be more repression, only this time with the blessing of the United States.”"