Cuba: Prisoner of conscience: Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina

Index Number: AMR 25/033/1999
Date Published: 18 July 1999
Categories: Americas, Cuba

Political activist, Nestor Rodriquez Lobaina, was arbitrarily arrested on 11 July 1999, for exercising his right to freedom of expression when he began a hunger strike in support of the Tamarindo 34 hunger strikers. His whereabouts are unknown. Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience and is urging his immediate release.