Cuban dissident marks two months on hunger strike
04-03-2006
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A Cuban dissident journalist on Friday marked two
months on a hunger strike to demand Internet access, a member of his
government-outlawed agency said.
Guillermo Farinas's condition is now "weak," according to his Cubanacan
agency colleague Niurvys Diaz.
"His health is weak, ... he has anemia and is in serious but stable
condition," Diaz said Thursday.
Farinas, 42, insists on staying on the strike, begun January 31, because
the Americas' only one-party communist government cut off the Internet
access he was using in a cybercafe -- with a phone card paid for in hard
currency -- to transmit his agency's news reports.
Farinas, who works in Santa Clara, has been arrested several times for
his anti-government activities, dissident sources said.
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