Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez

Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez
Spouse Ada Moraima León Sabina[1]
Children Ailén, Claudia

Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez is a Cuban dissident and has been declared as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.[2]

He was president of the human rights organization Frente Escambray and activist supporter of the Varela project.[1][3] He was a member of the Democratic Action Movement, National Action Party and the Independent Democratic Front.[4]

He was imprisoned during the Black Spring in 2003 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.[2] At the time of his arrest he was president of the Escambray Human Rights Front.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Síntesis biográfica de Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez". Payolibre.com. http://www.payolibre.com/PRESO-%20Arturo%20Perez%20de%20Alejo.htm. 
  2. ^ a b "Cuba: One year too many: prisoners of conscience from the March 2003 crackdown". Amnesty International. 16 March 2004. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR25/005/2004. 
  3. ^ Neil Hicks, Director of International Programs. "Human rights defenders in Cuba two years after the crackdown". Human rights first. http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/defenders/hrd_cuba/cuba-hicks-testimony-042805.pdf. 
  4. ^ "Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, Political Prisoner of the Week". http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2007/05/arturo_prez_de__1.html.