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
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