Ganji, An Iranian dissident being on Hunger Strike for more than 60 days
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Posted on 08/22/2005 8:01:03 PM PDT by nuconvert
Cuba's Ganji
New York Sun Staff Editorial
August 22, 2005
Freedom is on the march in Cuba, and Fidel Castro seems nervous. Over the past month, he has intensified his crackdown on political dissenters, making arrests at a pace unseen since the last wave of repression in 2003. Now Rene Gomez Manzano, a dissident leader arrested in his bed on July 22, is starting a hunger strike to protest his unjust imprisonment, as The New York Sun's Meghan Clyne reported Friday. Mr. Gomez Manzano will join Akbar Ganji, the jailed Iranian journalist who also has gone on a hunger strike, as a hero of the struggle for democracy.
The most recent repression traces back to a May 20 gathering at Havana at which at least 150 dissidents demanded democracy and the release of political prisoners. Mr. Gomez Manzano was one of the organizers. After this unusually strong showing, Mr. Castro apparently felt compelled to send in his paramilitary to suppress a small annual opposition commemoration on July 13. A wave of arrests followed just more than a week later.
Since July 22, 50 opponents of the regime have been arrested, of whom 15 remain in jail, including Mr. Gomez Manzano. Seventy-five dissidents were arrested in 2003; 61 of them are still behind bars. The government has launched a campaign of intimidation against other leaders. For example, a crowd of pro-government thugs recently surrounded the house of Vladimiro Roca for several hours, hurling invective at him as they tried to block an anti-government meeting.
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I expect the peanut to ride in to aid Fidel.
Ghandi?
Ganji, An Iranian dissident being on Hunger Strike for more than 60 days
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Golly gee whiz... Aren't America's leftie-liberal "Move On" types going to rally to the support of someone opposing a tyrannical dictatorship??
You're not going to tell me it's up to us right-wing extremist wackos to do that... are you???
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