Yoeleidys Sigler, daughter of Guido Sigler Amaya, a prominent political prisoner who pledged to never surrender to his jailers’ attempts to ‘re-educate’ him, has called for the immediate and unconditional release of her father. She says that she, her family and the neighbors alike are suffering very much and cannot bear the suffering anymore.

Listen to Yoeleidys’ voice here.

Our good friend Carlos Serpa Maceira, independent journalist working for the Lux Info Press Agency and the “Cuba-Miami Information Bridge”, informs us about the hunger strike of a political prisoner who was detained on 13 July,2005 , when he was participating to a peaceful demonstration in Havana’s Malec????n seaside, to pay homage to the rafters killed by Castro while fleeing Cuba in 1994.

To communicate with Serpa Maceira and receive the news he sends to the opposition websites in the exile, send him an email : serpamaceiraÉyahoo.es

My friend and former political prisoner, Claudia Marquez Linares, has interviewed Angel de Fana of the Movement “Plantados Hasta la Libertad y la Democrac????a de Cuba”.The interview is in Spanish and can be read here.

Contacto Cuba.com hosts a must-read testimony, in English, of the daughter of a Cuban freedom fighter who had fought first against Batista in the ranks of the Castro-led rebels and later against the Castro’s regime itself. The Cuban was a staunch anti-communist and a democrat, member of the glorious 2506 Brigade. Read it here.