Omauris Rondón Rivero in May 2008 was charged with and convicted of "defamation of government institutions, heroes and martyrs" and sentenced to 1 year in prison.
What exactly Rondón did or said, I don't know, but it almost doesn't matter. That there is such a crime in Cuba — I guess it might be comparable to saying something critical about George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, but I would never compare them to the butchers of Havana — reveals the lengths to which the dicatorship will go to stamp out its opposition.
If the law doesn't allow them to act, it just makes it up as they go.
Speaking from the gulag, independent journalist Adolfo Fernández Sainz reports that guards at the Canaleta prison in Ciego de Avila that guards routinely beat and insult Rondón.
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