Media Rights Groups Concerned About Health of Imprisoned Cuban Journalist

Media Rights Groups Concerned About Health of Imprisoned Cuban Journalist
By VOA News
24 September 2005



Two media rights groups are voicing concern about the health of jailed Cuban
journalist Victor Arroyo Carmona, who began a hunger strike two weeks ago to
protest his treatment in prison and is now hospitalized.
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said Friday that Arroyo refuses
intravenous nourishment and is extremely dehydrated. The group said Cuba's
government does not stop at silencing independent journalists and lets them
die slowly in what the organization called dreadful prison conditions.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said Arroyo's wife, Elsa
Gonzalez, learned of the hunger strike from relatives of other jailed
dissidents and is still waiting for Cuban officials to authorize a visit
with him.
The journalist was among 75 dissidents and independent journalists rounded
up in March 2003 in a Cuban government crackdown. He was sentenced to 26
years in prison. Fourteen people have since been released.

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