Wednesday, February 24, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience dies - '...Orlando Zapata Tamayo, 42, one of Amnesty International's "prisoners of conscience", was so emaciated he was almost unrecognisable when he died at a prison hospital in Havana. Jailed in 2003 during a political crackdown, he is the first dissident to starve himself to death in almost four decades...Since he was an Amnesty "prisoner of conscience", I expected there would be a great deal of detail on the AIUK's website where we might learn more of this obviously courageous human rights advocate. Alas there is nothing, apart from a mention in passing in a press release from more than two years ago, and the introduction to a 2004 human rights report on Cuba which has been removed from the site. Over at Amnesty International’s website, there is, frankly, sod-all either...'
Maybe if he had been - oh never mind.
The world has losts its bearings.