4 Cuban Dissidents Face Sedition Trial
Cuba plans to try in Havana on Monday the island’s four best-known dissidents, whose 19-month imprisonment has been a focus of international pressure on Fidel Castro’s Communist government, relatives said Friday.
State security officials confirmed that the four dissidents, who were charged with sedition after openly calling for democratic changes to Cuba’s one-party system, would be tried at Havana’s Provincial Court, family members told Reuters.
“The news made me cry. We’ve been waiting so long. My hope is that they all get their freedom, because they are innocent,” Magalys Roca, wife of one of the four, Vladimiro Roca, said in a telephone interview.
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