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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