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July 17, 2006
 

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Prison inmate hangs himself after serving 17 years

HAVANA, Cuba - July 6 (Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia, Jóvenes sin Censura / www.cubanet.org) - An inmate of the Guamajal prison in Villa Clara province hanged himself after serving 17 years of a 29 year sentence.

Luis Enrique Martínez was found in the number 8 ward of the prison.

Yaumara Reyes, a local political activist pointed out his made the fifth suicide so far this year, and traced the cause to ill treatment of the inmates in the prisons.

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