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April 24, 2012

Cuban political prisoner Luis E. Labrador starts hunger strike to protest abuses

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Cuban political prisoner Luis Enrique Labrador has started a hunger strike to demand that prison guards who beat him recently are punished by their superiors.

Labrador's mother told the CIHPRESS news agency that guards at the notorious Aguica prison in Matanzas assaulted Labrador after he refused to wear a uniform designating him as a common prisoner. They also have thrown him in a punishment cell because of his intransigence.

In response, Labrador has responded with the only weapon at his disposal -- his life.

Labrador has been in prison since January 2011, after he and three other activists went to Havana's Revolution Square and threw leaflets into the air with slogans such as "Down with the Castros." Labrador was later sentenced to five years in prison.

Read more about Labrador here.

Posted by on April 24, 2012 at 10:02 PM |

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