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Article published the Saturday 05 March 2011 - Latest update : Saturday 05 March 2011

I will fight on for democracy in Cuba, says freed prisoner

Pedro Arguelles
Archive of Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello

By RFI

A freed political prisoner has vowed to continue campaigning for democracy in Cuba, even though he has been he will be jailed again if he breaks the law.

Pedro Arguelles is one of five remaining political prisoners from a group of 75 arrested eight years ago.

Arguelles, a 62-year-old journalist who worked for the underground news agency CubaPress, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2003.

“I was freed yesterday around six in the evening under certain conditions,” he told RFI. “If Ido not respect the law then I will go back to prison.

But he added, “I want to reaffirm my committment to democracy in Cuba.
I will continue my fight even if this means I will return to prison.”

Arguelles said that he turned down an offer to go to Spain.

“I was born here and I am going to continue my peaceful battle. I have never agreed to leave.

“I have decided to stay in the country where i was born and where I will die.”

Arguelles is the 48th of the 52 prisoners the authorities have agreed to free.
 

tags: Cuba - Democracy - Fidel Castro - Human rights - Journalists - Prisons
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