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• Luis Labrador, Yordanis Martinz, David Piloto and Walfrido Rodriguez, Cuba Political Prisoners of the Week, 6/5/11

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  UPDATED, June 10, 2011 -- Political prisoner Walfrido Rodriguez started a hunger strike June 5 after his jailers told him he would have to wear the uniform of a common prisoner.

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  Four Cuban dissidents were sentenced to up to 5 years in prison after they were convicted of distribution [...]

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• Anti-Castro activist takes his demands to Raul Castro

  

  Jorge Luis Artiles Montiel
  
  

  Before ending a hunger strike he started to protest the death of Cuban dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia,  activist Jorge Luis Artiles Montiel wrote this letter to the dictator Raul Castro:

  President of the State Council and of the Ministry of [...]

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• Guillermo Farinas starts hunger strike

  

  Guillermo Farinas

  Guillermo Farinas today launched his 24th hunger strike against the Castro dictatorship.

  Questions about the independent journalist/human rights activist's sanity may be legitimate, but it also important to note that once again, Farinas is not demanding anything for himself but for his fellow Cubans: Namely, [...]

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