Imprisoned journalist keeps working

The bravery and commitment to their work of imprisoned Cuban journalists never ceases to amaze me. They are in jail because of their work, yet they continue on, doing whatever they can to inform the world of the horrors of the gulag and to support the cause of Cuban freedom.

The latest to stand up to the regime is Raimundo Perdigón Brito. Perdigón in December was convicted of being a "pre-criminal social danger," and sentenced to 4 years in prison.

He revealed himself to be a "danger," apparently, when about a few weeks earlier, he, his sister and few other journalists formed the Yayabo Press news agency.

Last week, Perdigón launched a protest after the jailers at the Capitán Nieves Morejón prison in Sancti Spíritus gace him only five minutes on the telephone, as opposed to the 25 minutes allowed by prison regulations. Officials apparently moved against Perdigón, because he had been using his telephone time to inform his colleagues in the independent press about abuses in the protest, according to a story by journalist Yoel Espinosa Medrano, posted at Misceláneas de Cuba.

In response, Perdigón said he would go on a 12-hour hunger strike on each Thursday, the day he is allowed to use the telephone.