LatinNews Daily Report - 17 August 2012

Cuban dissidents reject “excessive” treatment

Central America & Caribbean by LatinNews 17 August 2012 Modified: 17 August 2012 2045 views

Development: On 16 August Cuban dissidents, led by Elizardo Sánchez of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, rejected as excessive a request by Cuban prosecutors to seek a seven-year jail sentence for the Spanish political activist Angel Carromero, on charges of involuntary manslaughter in relation to the deaths of two Cuban dissidents, Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero.

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