Speak against the Cuban government, get 17 years in prison
on April 24th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Well at least they have free medical care, right?
Except for this guy.
(cubanet.org) HAVANA – A veteran dissident leader who wrote a book about Cuban prison conditions while behind bars was freed over the weekend after serving his entire 17-year sentence, rights groups said Monday.
Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, widely known by the nickname “Antunez,” was released Sunday morning from prison in the central province of Villa Clara, the opposition group Bitacora Cubana said in a statement.
Originally arrested on charges of engaging in enemy propaganda and attempted sabotage in 1990, Garcia Perez was among the prisoners Pope John Paul II had asked the government to release. But he was not among the 14 people the Cuban government said it had freed in conjunction with the January 1998 papal visit.
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In Havana, another rights group confirmed Garcia Perez’s release even as it reported a new case of a dissident attorney sentenced after a secret trial to 12 years in prison for painting graffiti and distributing pamphlets with an anti-government message. (more…)
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