Cuban human rights activist Julián Antonio Monés Borrero, who was paroled from a Cuban prison earlier this year because of poor health, faces as many as 5 years in prison after he was arrested Sept. 30 in Baracoa, according to a dispatch posted at Payo Libre.
Two days before his arrest, Monés, president of the Miguel Valdés Tamayo Human Rights Movement, was at a local recreation center wearing a shirt declaring, CAMBIO, or "change," when a young punk physically assaulted him. Monés did the right thing by defending himself, but this being the Castro brothers' Cuba — and the punk being a student at a local military school — it is Monés who now is in trouble.
Monés, who resumed his human rights activities after his parole, has been transferred to a State Security detention facility to await trial on a charge of "attacking" — which has been used before to silence critics of the dictatorship. If convicted, Monés could be sentenced to as many as 5 years in the gulag.
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