NEW LINK/ M.HERALD/ Eleven recently released Cuban dissidents vowed to continue to fight for political prisoners' freedom and detailed disturbing conditions of their years behind bars. "I spent 18 months in solitary confinement," Lester Gonzalez said in Spain. "[I was] in the dark, with my hands tied; with rats and cockroaches and excrement everywhere. That was all I could smell." Former prisoner Jose Luis Garcia Paneque said :"I went into prison weighing 86kg, now I'm 48kg, That's the effect of my prison time: chronic illness for rest of my life." Some of the released prisoners believe that their expatriation is really a "deportation'' and showed their passports had been marked
``salida definitiva'' -- final exit -- while the passports of children and adolescents were labeled
emigrantes, meaning that they could return to Cuba some day.
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