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Handout picture presumably taken on September 10, 2011 and released by Cuban opposition organization 'Union Patriotica de Cuba' showing jailed Cuban dissident Wilmar Villar.
Friday, Jan. 20, 2012

Open quoteWe hold the Cuban government categorically responsible because he died under their care. Close quote

  • ELIZARDO SANCHEZ
  • of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights. The jailed dissident Wilmar Villar Mendoza has died in Cuba from the effects of a hunger strike and what fellow opposition activists believe was mistreatment by the Cuban government.
Photo: AFP / Getty Images | Source: Guardian