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Weekly Report - 27 September 2005
CUBA: Still-imprisoned dissidents stage hunger strike
Three imprisoned dissidents have gone on hunger strike to drive home the point that the Cuban government has only released 14 of the 75 dissidents it convicted to long prison terms in early 2003 on charges of conspiring with the US, endangering the independence of the state and undermining the principles of the revolution. One of them is reportedly in a very serious condition.
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