Post by pavel on Jan 19, 2016 18:24:03 GMT -6
Rep. Diaz-Balart pushes Cuba to free dissident journalist on hunger strike
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart called Tuesday for the Cuban government to release an independent journalist who stopped eating four weeks ago to protest his Dec. 17 arrest.
Diaz-Balart, a seven-term Republican from Miami, said Misael Canet Velázquez is being held “in abhorrent conditions in Camaguey’s notorious Kilo 8 prison without clothes or a suitable place to sleep, and has been provided limited access to water.”
The Cuban-American congressman’s appeal came three weeks after he demanded the release of another Cuban dissident, Vladimir Morera Bacallao, who had posted a sign on his front lawn last April calling municipal elections then taking place a sham. Morera has waged his own hunger strike while in prison.
Canet is a leader of the National Front of Civic Resistance Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a protest group based in southern Cuba. He’s also a reporter for the independent news agency Press Talk.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article55519855.html
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart called Tuesday for the Cuban government to release an independent journalist who stopped eating four weeks ago to protest his Dec. 17 arrest.
Diaz-Balart, a seven-term Republican from Miami, said Misael Canet Velázquez is being held “in abhorrent conditions in Camaguey’s notorious Kilo 8 prison without clothes or a suitable place to sleep, and has been provided limited access to water.”
The Cuban-American congressman’s appeal came three weeks after he demanded the release of another Cuban dissident, Vladimir Morera Bacallao, who had posted a sign on his front lawn last April calling municipal elections then taking place a sham. Morera has waged his own hunger strike while in prison.
Canet is a leader of the National Front of Civic Resistance Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a protest group based in southern Cuba. He’s also a reporter for the independent news agency Press Talk.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article55519855.html