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Activist: Cuba's Valdes Tamayo dies

Activist: Cuba's Valdes Tamayo dies
Staff and agencies
11 January, 2007

12 minutes ago

HAVANA - Cuban dissident Manuel Valdes Tamayo, one of 75 activists
jailed in a massive crackdown in 2003 and released a year later for
health reasons, died Wednesday night, according to one of the island's
leading activists. He was 50.

Valdes Tamayo had been in intensive care at a Havana hospital since Dec.
31. He was among dissidents rounded up in the spring of 2003 and
sentenced to prison terms ranging from six to 28 years.

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