11 September 2009

Cuban Who Cried Hunger, Denied Appeal. Gets 2 Years in Prison.

REUTERS.
A Cuban appeals court upheld a two-year prison sentence for a Havana man jailed last month after he appeared in a widely viewed YouTube video shouting there was hunger in Cuba.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos, known as "Panfilo," asked that his sentence for the crime of "dangerousness" be reduced, but a panel of judges refused.
(For more details, see August 28th...story/link...on this blog).

To see video...en Espanol...go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLLAh2yTqu0