Sara Martha Fonseca
Two of the five Cuban dissidents arrested on charges of "public disorder" during a protest at the University of Havana on Monday have been released, but three others remain in jail and have started hunger strikes to protest their detentions, according to news reports.
The Miami Herald reported that Sara Martha Fonseca Quevedo and Yordani Martínez Carvajal were released late Tuesday, some 36 hours after they gathered on the university's famed steps and started shouting anti-Castro and anti-communist slogans.
Fonseca told Radio Martí that she and the others started hunger strikes while they were held at a police station, and that the three dissidents still in jail — Michel Rodríguez Ruiz, Luis Enrique Labrador and Eduardo Pérez Flores — were continuing with their protests. In addition, they were refusing to drink water, according to Fonseca.
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