Three Cuban activists in jail since May when they were arrested in Guantanamo province for protesting the arrest of another activist, this week learned their punishment after they were convicted of "public disorder" and "attempted murder."
Yoelkis Rosabal, 31, was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Ricardo Pelier, 28, was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
Ernesto Darián Duffo, 24, was sentenced to years in prison.
The trio, all activists with the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), were arrested after they protested the arrest of another UNPACU activist, Yohannes Arce.
Arce, also a member of UNPACU, was sentenced in September to 3 years in prison on a charge of "assault." He had been arrested in May after signs with anti-government slogans appeared in the town of Caimanera, in Guantanamo province.
Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, the head of UNPACU, said Arce has been on hunger strike for more than two weeks to protest the sentence, according to Martinoticias.com.
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