Sonia Garro and Ramón Alejandro Muñoz
In jail for 17 months without trial or even formal charges being filed, Cuban political prisoner Ramón Alejandro Muñoz this week said he plans to start a hunger strike to protest his continued imprisonment.
Muñoz is the husband of Dama De Blanco Sonia Garro Alfonso, who also remains in jail.
"Our imprisonment goes against what is in the law," Muñoz said in a telephone interview with CubaNet. "Or does the law not exist for people who think differently?"
Muñoz and Garro and were arrested March 18, 2012, during a nationwide crackdown against the opposition in advance of Pope Benedix XVI's visit to the island.
According to Amnesty International, the couple was arrested at their home in Havana after 50 police officers forced their way into the house and fired rubber bullets at them. Sonia Garro Alfonso was wounded in the foot.
When he was arrested, Muñoz was on the rooftop of his partially constructed home brandishing a machete, according to CubaNet.
Muñoz said he will start his hunger strike after Aug. 26, so that he can explain to his family during a scheduled prison visit what he is planning.
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