Political Prisoner Has (Been) Dissapeared

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 14



BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS



On February 5th, 44-year old, Cuban political prisoner Ernesto Borges Perez began a hunger strike demanding the release of 10 fellow prisoners who refuse to accept forced exile as a condition of their release, and of Alan Gross, an American development worker who has been held in a Cuban jail for more than 14 months.

A week after starting the hunger strike, Borges Perez has (or was) disappeared from the maximum security prison of Guanajay in the province of Artemisa, where he had been held for the last 13 years.

Borges Perez is a vice-president of the opposition (and thus "illegal") Christian Democratic Unity Party.

His father, Raul Borges Alvarez, a lawyer and pro-democracy activist in his own right, is calling on the international community to pressure the Castro regime regarding the whereabouts of his son.