In memoriam Orlando Zapata Tamayo (1967–2010)

Lupta pentru libertate, demnitate si democratie continua in tarile lovite de flagelul autoritarist ori totalitar. Recent, dizidentul cubanez Orlando Zapata Tamayo s-a stins din viata la capatul a 85 de zile de greva a foamei. Asemenea jertfe ne indoliaza si ne responsabilizeaza. RIP.

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HAVANA – An opposition political activist imprisoned since 2003 died Tuesday after a lengthy hunger strike, members of Cuba’s human rights community said.

Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a mason who was jailed on charges that included disrespecting authority, died at Havana’s Hermanos Almejeras hospital after being transferred there from Havana’s Combinado del Este prison.

Zapata Tamayo, 42, was not among the island’s best-known dissidents. He was arrested in 2003 on charges of disrespecting authority, said Elizardo Sanchez, head of the Havana-based, independent Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.