Human rights activist Lázaro Rosales Rojas was released from prison after completing a 3-year sentence on a conviction for being a "pre-criminal social danger."
Rosales, 42, a member of the Council of Human Rights Rapporteurs, was released Oct. 17 from the Aguadores prison in Santiago de Cuba, according to a report posted at Payo Libre.
Even by its own admission, i.e. the charge it chose to level Rosales, the dictatorship knew he wasn't a criminal, so it resorted to its familiar Orwellian tactics to silence him before he became a real problem.
That the dictatorship also adhered to the letter of Rosales' sentence, does not diminish the absurdity of what he is was forced to suffer in the Castro gulag.
And does not make it deserving of any acclaim for Rosales' release.
Read my Political Prisoner of the Week profile of Rosales, here.
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