Cuban dissident to end hunger strike if others freed
AFP/File Adalberto Roque A Cuban opposition journalist said Saturday he was ready to end his nearly three-month hunger strike if the Cuban regime releases 10 political prisoners and agrees to a timeline to free others. "When the number of those released reaches 10 and the Church tells me there is a timeline for others to be freed, I will end my strike," Guillermo Farinas told AFP via telephone from Santa Clara hospital in central Cuba, where he has been treated with an IV drip since March 11. He said he had spoken to Catholic Church officials who agreed that "the government must take the first step, which must be the release of prisoners." In his first ever meeting with Cuba's top two Church officials
AFP/File Adalberto Roque A Cuban opposition journalist said Saturday he was ready to end his nearly three-month hunger strike if the Cuban regime releases 10 political prisoners and agrees to a timeline to free others. "When the number of those released reaches 10 and the Church tells me there is a timeline for others to be freed, I will end my strike," Guillermo Farinas told AFP via telephone from Santa Clara hospital in central Cuba, where he has been treated with an IV drip since March 11. He said he had spoken to Catholic Church officials who agreed that "the government must take the first step, which must be the release of prisoners." In his first ever meeting with Cuba's top two Church officials
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