Juan Bermúdez Toranzo
The cruelty of the Castro dictatorship has no bounds.
Fortunately, so do the efforts of those who resist the dictatorship. Not even the bars of the gulag can silence those clamoring for justice and for freedom for their country.
For example, political prisoner Juan Bermúdez Toranzo, an inmate at the El Pre prison in Santa Clara, last week organized a fast as a way for prisoners to protest their living conditions. He timed the protest to coincide with the July 26 anniversary of the start of the Castro "revolution."
The authorities responded the only way they know how: By tossing him into a punishment cell, fearing that the prison's bad food, bad medical care and all around badness would give inmates plenty to protest.
A human rights activist and lawyer, Bermúdez in March 2008 was sentenced to 4 years in prison on a charge of "threatening." (There was a report that he also was sentenced to 12 years in prison for "revealing state secrets") Bermúdez has been in jail since the previous November, when he and other activists were arrested while fasting in support of political prisoners.
Read my Political Prisoner of the Week profile of Bermúdez, here.
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