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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-11-07 04:02 AM
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Cuba frees long-serving dissident
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Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Saturday, 11 August 2007, 04:42 GMT 05:42 UK

Cuba frees long-serving dissident

By Michael Voss
BBC News, Havana

A well-known Cuban dissident has been freed from jail
after serving nearly 15 years for revealing state security
secrets, a human rights group has said.

Francisco Chaviano, a former teacher, was sentenced in
1995 and was released on parole on Friday.

The independent Cuban Commission for Human Rights and
National Reconciliation said that he was Cuba's longest-
serving political prisoner.

The Cuban government has not commented on Mr Chaviano's
release.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6941582.stm


Also: Freed dissident tells of abuses, torment of 13 years in `hell' - Miami Herald
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