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New NGO formed for political prisoners
HAVANA, March 2 (Shelyn Rojas / www.cubanet.org)
- A new non-governmental organization named
Commission for the Attention of Political
Prisoners and their Families was founded
last week.
Froilán Osmany Rodríguez
Sánchez, president of the NGO, said,
"Since November of 2005 a small group
of activists decided to undertake this project
to look after political prisoners and their
families, thus expressing to them our spiritual
support and unconditional solidarity."
The NGO's constitution was decided upon
February 19 at a meeting in the home of
its vice-president, Lázaro Prieto
Álvarez.
Those present at the founding meeting included
Sergio Pastor Martínez Carrazana,
Ricardo Aguilar García, Cristóbal
Soriano Argudín, Pedro Leonel Ordoñez,
José Lorenzo Pérez Fidalgo
and Daniel Mesa Castillo.
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