René Gomez Manzano and  journalist Roberto de Jesus Guerra, began a hunger strike since July 13th of this in protest, requesting due process in a Cuban tribunal.

On July 25, Juan Carlos González Leiva, attorney and president of the Cuban Human Rights Foundation sends and international SOS for the life and ill health of the attorney René Gomez Manzano and independent journalist  Gonzalez Leiva, the president of the Abogados Agramontistas de Cuba, René Gómez Manzano and the independent journalist Roberto de Jesus Guerra are presently very ill in the infirmary of the prison Nieves Morejón in Sancti Spiritus, as a consequence of the hunger strike they began last July 13th, in protest, requesting due process in a Cuban tribunal.

Both activists remain in Cuban prisons along with more than 50 opponents pending to be tried, some of them have been waiting in jail to be arraigned for over three years now.

The Cuban Human Rights Foundation holds the Cuban Government responsible for the life and health of both activists.

Background : Attorney René Gomez Manzano and the independent Journalist Roberto de Jesus Guerra were arrested one year ago, n July 22, 2005 while an activity was being held outside

The French Embassy in Havana. René Gomez Manzano was arrested in his home for he was not participating in the activity. (For more : See :  idhae-uk-page4.1.cub4.htm)

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-         urging that Rene Gomez Manzano and Roberto de Jesus Guerra be immediately and unconditionally released, on the grounds that they are prisoners of conscience, detained solely for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly;

-          urging to respect freedom of expression and freedom of association and to immediately release all of those imprisoned for their efforts to promote basic human rights in Cuba.

-          asking the authorities to conform to the provisions of the Declaration on Humans Rights Defenders, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1998, in particular article 1, which states that "everyone has the right, individually or in association with others, to promote the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels";

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