Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas has vowed to go ahead
with a hunger strike even if it kills him.
The 48 year old launched his protest following the death last month of another dissident Orlando Zapata at a Havana hospital on the 85th day of a hunger strike.
Mr. Farinas told Spanish newspaper El Pais that he was starting his own hunger strike to demand the release of sick political prisoners.
He said he was willing to starve himself to death to help the world realise that the Cuban Government was cruel.
Guillermo Farinas said his goal was to make the government pay a high political price for what he called Orlando Zapata's assassination.
Mr. Zapata had been refusing food in protest at jail conditions.
The 48 year old launched his protest following the death last month of another dissident Orlando Zapata at a Havana hospital on the 85th day of a hunger strike.
Mr. Farinas told Spanish newspaper El Pais that he was starting his own hunger strike to demand the release of sick political prisoners.
He said he was willing to starve himself to death to help the world realise that the Cuban Government was cruel.
Guillermo Farinas said his goal was to make the government pay a high political price for what he called Orlando Zapata's assassination.
Mr. Zapata had been refusing food in protest at jail conditions.
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