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20 January 2012

CUBA: Dissident Villar Mendoza Dies After 56 Day Hunger Strike; Farinas Freed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/us-cuba-dissident-death-idUSTRE80J0C020120120

      Political dissident Wilmar Villar Mendoza, 31...died in a Santiago de Cuba hospital...after a 56 day hunger strike. (The BBC/AP/CNN report a 50-day fast).
      Villar was protesting his 4-year sentence for  demonstrating.
      Authorities announced releasing another well known dissident...Guillermo Farinas...also on a hunger strike...from prison.

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