The doctor of psychology, independent journalist and political dissident has spent 11-and-a-half years in prison and conducted 23 hunger strikes to protest against the Cuban regime, censorship and human rights violations - "not in his own favour but in order to defend his compatriots", according to Spanish Christian Democrat José Ignacio Salafranca.
48 gadus vecais psiholoģijas doktors, žurnālists un politiskais disidents ir pavadījis vairāk nekā 11 gadus apcietinājumā un veicis 23 bada streikus, lai protestētu pret Kubas režīmu, cilvēktiesību pārkāpumiem un cenzūru Kubā "ne sevis, bet tautiešu labā", norādīja José Ignacio Salafranca (EPP, Spānija).