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| Oswaldo, Regis and Tony turn in petition signatures on May 10, 2002 |
May 10 marked the thirteenth anniversary of when Oswaldo Payá
Sardiñas along with Christian Liberation Movement activists Regis
Iglesias Ramírez and Tony Díaz Sánchez walked together with others to
turn in 11,020 signatures to the Assembly of Peoples Power in 2002
supporting the Varela Project.
The Varela Project is a citizen initiative demanding human rights
reforms and a referendum in Cuba. The response by the Castro regime was
to: violate its own norms ignoring the petition, set up its own petition
drive making the constitution "unchangeable" using threats and
intimidation to obtain signatures, crack down on the opposition (
sentencing 75 to long prison terms, among them Regis to
18 years in prison and Tony to
20 years in prison ), extrajudicially executing Oswaldo in what appears to have been a state security operation on July 22, 2012 that also claimed the life of youth leader, Harold Cepero.
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