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February 04, 2009

Life in the gulag is killing prisoner Vladimir Alejo

The injustices keep piling up for Cuban political prisoner Vladimir Alejo Miranda.

Alejo, a human rights activist and all around freedom fighter, has been imprisoned without formal charges since December 2007, when he was arrested in a Guanabacoa park for carrying a sign calling for the release of political prisoners.

This past October, Alejo, now 46, suffered a heart attack, provoked by his guards' constant harassment. Slowly and painfully, the dictatorship is taking its vengeance on Alejo.

Independent journalist/human rights activist Juan Carlos González Leiva reports this morning that Alejo is back in a prison hospital, after suffering a "cardiac relapse."

Read my Political Prisoner of the Week profile of Alejo, president of the Miguel Valdés Tamayo Pro Human Rights Popular Movement, here.

Posted by on February 04, 2009 at 05:57 AM in Cuba, Cuba - Political Prisoner of the Week |

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