Cuban prisoner of conscience Pablo Pacheco Avila in 2009 won the Amnesty International special award for journalism under threat. He was arrested during the Cuban Black Spring of March 2003. Below is a brief Amnesty International video about Pablo.
As I write these words in a small Church in Cuba the Ladies in White and a group of Cuban bloggers are gathered to pay their respects for Cuba's prisoners of conscience and outside State Security and a mob of government agents have surrounded the Church.
They are in my thoughts and prayers
"The first victory we can claim is that our hearts are free of hatred. Hence we say to those who persecute us and who try to dominate us: ‘You are my brother. I do not hate you, but you are not going to dominate me by fear. I do not wish to impose my truth, nor do I wish you to impose yours on me. We are going to seek the truth together’. THIS IS THE LIBERATION WHICH WE ARE PROCLAIMING."
Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas (2002)
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