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===Cuban dissidents=== {{See also|Human rights in Cuba|Censorship in Cuba|Political career of Fidel Castro|category=}} On April 3, 1972, [[Pedro Luis Boitel]], an imprisoned poet and dissident, declared himself on hunger strike. After 53 days on hunger strike, receiving only liquids, he died of starvation on May 25, 1972. His last days were related by his close friend, poet [[Armando Valladares]]. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the [[Colon Cemetery, Havana|Cólon Cemetery]] in [[Havana]]. {{citation needed | date = February 2024}} [[Guillermo Fariñas]] did a seven-month hunger strike to protest against the extensive [[Censorship in Cuba|Internet censorship in Cuba]]. He ended it in Autumn 2006, with severe health problems although still conscious.<ref name="RWB">{{cite web |url=https://rsf.org/en/news/guillermo-farinas-ends-seven-month-old-hunger-strike-internet-access |title=Guillermo Fariñas ends seven-month-old hunger strike for Internet access |publisher=Reporters Without Borders |date=January 20, 2016 |access-date=November 20, 2018 |archive-date=November 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120221112/https://rsf.org/en/news/guillermo-farinas-ends-seven-month-old-hunger-strike-internet-access |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Reporters Without Borders]] awarded its cyber-freedom prize to Guillermo Fariñas in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rsf.org/en/news/cyber-freedom-prize-2006-awarded-guillermo-farinas-cuba |title=Cyber-freedom prize for 2006 awarded to Guillermo Fariñas of Cuba |publisher=Reporters Without Borders |date=January 20, 2016 |access-date=November 20, 2018 |archive-date=November 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120221242/https://rsf.org/en/news/cyber-freedom-prize-2006-awarded-guillermo-farinas-cuba |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Jorge Luis García Pérez]] (known as Antúnez) has done hunger strikes. In 2009, following the end of his 17-year imprisonment, Antúnez, his wife Iris, and Diosiris Santana Pérez started a hunger strike to support other political prisoners. Leaders from Uruguay, Costa Rica, and Argentina declared their support for Antúnez.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.directorio.org/pressreleases/note.php?note_id=2389 |title=Additional Latin American Leaders Join in Solidarity with Antúnez |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027130847/http://www.directorio.org/pressreleases/note.php?note_id=2389 |archive-date=October 27, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.directorio.org/pressreleases/note.php?note_id=2357 |title=Young Uruguayans Support Antúnez, Cuban Political Prisoners |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027130843/http://www.directorio.org/pressreleases/note.php?note_id=2357 |archive-date=October 27, 2012 }}</ref> On February 23, 2010, [[Orlando Zapata]], a dissident arrested in 2003 as part of a crackdown on opposition groups, died in a hospital while undertaking a hunger strike that had been ongoing for 85 days. His hunger strike was a protest against poor prison conditions. Amnesty International had declared him a prisoner of conscience.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8533350.stm|title=Cuban prison hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo dies|work=BBC News|date=February 24, 2010|access-date=February 24, 2010|archive-date=November 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114220653/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8533350.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
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