Hungerstriking Guillermo Fariñas lost consciousness and was taken to hospital FANTU - July 28, 2016 (Translated by CDV.org)
Today July 28th 2016 soon after twelve o’clock Guillermo Fariñas Hernández lost consciousness and was transported to the Provincial University Hospital Arnaldo Milian Castro in Santa Clara, Cuba, due to his hunger and thirst strike, which he carries out in protest against the repression on the Island.
This information was announced on telephone by Jorge Luis Artiles Montiel, the official voice of the hungerstriking Fariñas and a member of FANTU. Artiles informed that at the moment Fariñas is in the Emergency of the hospital on observation and he is accompanied by his mother Alicia Hernandez Cabeza, retired nurse and teacher.
The Antitotalitarian Foro (FANTU) claims that Cuba’s dictator Raúl Castro Ruz will be responsible for what may happen to Guillermo Fariñas Hernández, awarded the European Parliament Sakharov Price 2010 for Freedom of Thought.
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