Probe sought into dissident’s death
From Times Wire Reports
Relatives and a Cuban human rights group called for an investigation into how a government critic died while in police custody last month.
Manuel Acosta, a 47-year-old former boxer and member of a dissident group known as the Democracy Movement, was arrested June 21 in Aguada de Pasajeros on charges of “criminality,” according to a letter signed by his cousin, Pedro Larena.
Authorities told Acosta’s relatives that he hanged himself in his cell three days after his arrest, and that an autopsy confirmed suicide.
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