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July 14, 2008

Small victories (UPDATED)

Cuban dissident leader Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina has ended a hunger strike protest, after government officials promised him his movements within the country would not be restricted, according to a report from journalist/human rights activist Tania Maceda Guerra.

Rodríguez, president of the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement, started his protest on July 6, after he was arrested in Havana and expelled to his hometown of Baracoa, in far eastern Cuba. He ended the hunger strike on July 10.

During his protest, Castroite goon squads surrounded his home, threw rocks and eggs and chanted pro-dictatorship slogans.

Rodríguez is well familiar with the dictatorship's ways. He has served a total of 10 years during three different stints in the Castro gulag.

UPDATED, July 17, 2008

Cuban Democratic Directorate has more details.

Posted by on July 14, 2008 at 05:37 AM in Cuba |

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