Dissident’s Death Ignites Fasting Protest/Hunger Strike in Cuba

At least four prisoners who were arrested as part of a mass roundup of dissidents in 2003 along with the dead dissident, Orlando Zapata Tamayo — who stopped eating solid foods on Dec. 3 to protest his detention and died on Feb. 23 — have begun their own hunger strikes, according to human rights activists....

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