Hunger Strikers in Critical Condition

BY: THE HILL


Cuban pro-democracy leaders Rolando Ferrer Espinosa and Alcides Rivera Rodríguez began a hunger strike over 30 days ago to protest the Castro regime's brutal violence against peaceful activists.

Last week, they were urgently taken to the Arnaldo Milián Hospital in the central province of Santa Clara with bronchial pneumonia. The hospital has since been militarized by state security forces.

Their lives are at risk.

Meanwhile, pro-democracty activists from the nearby provinces have gathered day and night near the hospital.

Rivera Rodriguez is the husband of Idania Yanez Contreras, one of Cuba's leading female pro-democracy leaders and no stranger to the Castro regime's violence.