He dared to talk about hunger
He is a 48-year old Cuban named Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos who dared to talk to the media about hunger in Cuba. He has been branded as a ‘social danger’ and sentenced to imprisonment for two years. He cannot appeal against the sentence and has to spend the time in Havana. The incident is of July when he interrupted the taping of a documentary on urban music to shout ‘there is hunger here, what we need is food’. The incident gained prominence when it was posted on the YouTube and the word spread like wildfire. This led to his arrest in August and the sentence has now been passed.
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- Submitted By: prabirghose | 2 months agoCuban to be jailed for complaining about food shortage Havana: A court of appeals in Havana has upheld the two-year sentence handed down to a man who had protested before television cameras about hunger in Cuba, a dissident told EFE. The court ruled ...
- News Source: Voice of America | 2 months agoVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez joked with Spanish King Juan Carlos during a meeting in Madrid Friday, saying the monarch's new beard reminded him of Fidel Castro. In a good-humored reply, Juan Carlos said he grew his beard recently in order to...
- News Source: NewKerala | 2 months agoThe sentence may not be appealed and Gonzalez, known as "Panfilo", will spend his two years behind bars in the Toledo 2 prison, located on the outskirts of Havana. The incident occurred in July, when an evidently intoxicated Panfilo interrupted the...
- News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 2 months agoA U.S.-based journalist watchdog group called Thursday for an end to what it described as "systemic harassment" of bloggers and independent journalists in Cuba, and urged the international community to step up its lobbying on the bloggers' behalf.
- News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 2 months agoA Cuban who was arrested for a drunken outburst in which he complained about hunger on the island appeared in court Thursday to appeal his two-year sentence for an incident that has made him an Internet celebrity. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos, known...
- Blog Source: lazyocorner.blogspot.comThe court ruled that Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos, 48, committed the crime of being a “social danger,” said Richard Rossello of the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation who attended the hearing as an observer. ... The
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