A CNN report offers more details on the brave sit-in protest at the home of former son of the revolution, Vladmiro Roca, and the toll it is taking on some of the protesters, including former political prisoner Martha Beatriz Roque:
Cuban dissidents holed up in a Havana house for 36 days started a liquids-only fast this week that led a doctor to order one of them to go home for health reasons, one of the protesters told CNN on Friday.
The doctor ordered another protester -- the only one who had been on a full hunger strike since the fast began on Wednesday -- to start drinking liquids, protester Lazaro Yuri Valle Roca said in a telephone interview.
The dissident vowed that the nine people remaining in the house will continue their protest.
"We remain firm in our decision and our disposition is to go forward," Valle Roca said.
Asked what they are protesting, he said, "We are demanding our rights as Cubans."
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