Leading Cuban dissident freed from prison
Cuba freed internationally renowned dissident writer Raul Rivero from prison today, the latest in a series of releases apparently aimed at cleaning up the island nation’s human rights record.
Rivero, among 75 dissidents rounded up in a massive crackdown in March 2003, had been jailed for 20 years on charges of working with the US government to undermine Fidel Castro’s communist regime.
