January 28, 2011
More "reform" you can't believe in.
According to AFP:
Cuban dissident Farinas is back behind bars
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, the 2010 Sakharov rights prize winner, has been arrested and police are holding him in the central city of Santa Clara, his mother and dissidents said Wednesday.
"I spoke with him, and he told me that he is under arrest in the third police unit in Santa Clara, and then he hung up," his mother Alicia Hernandez said by phone from the city located some 240 kilometers (150 miles) east of Havana.
Elizardo Sanchez, of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, said the psychologist who went on a high-profile hunger strike last year was detained with 15 other opponents of the Americas' only one-party communist regime.
On December 15, an empty chair draped in a Cuban flag symbolized Havana's refusal to allow Farinas to pick up his prestigious Sakharov rights prize in Strasbourg.
In a recorded message to the European Parliament which gave him the award, left standing on the empty chair, Farinas signed off as "a psychologist, librarian, independent journalist, three-time political prisoner".
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