Speak against the Cuban government, get 17 years in prision
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…)
More on Jorge Luis Garcia Perez.
This Negroe needs to check his Cuban history. Segregation ended in Cuba before it ended in the US.
Based upon US Jim Crow laws, black Cubans were not allowed on the beach in Cuba prior to Castro.
When Castro came to the UN, he stayed in Harlem with the black members of his government, because black Cubans were not allowed in the prestigious NYC hotels.
You’ll notice that the vast majority of the Cubans welcomed to the US, have been the yella ones, the damn near white ones.
Comment by NSangoma | April 25, 2007
Segregation ended in Cuba before it ended in the US.
Hmmm, I guess that explains how the Cuban government is made up of mostly light-skinned folks on an island that is majority dark skinned.
Here is how another brotha is treated in your “free” Cuba.
Comment by Duane | April 25, 2007