HAVANA, June 24 (UPI) -- The Cuban government has freed dissident Roberto de Miranda, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last year, CNN reported Thursday.
De Miranda, a professor opposed to the Castro regime, suffers from heart disease. He was one of the 75 dissidents jailed by the Cuban government in March 2003 as part of a sweep to punish government dissidents charged with working with the U.S. government to undermine Cuban socialism.
"The government has made a gesture of good will liberating those dissidents who were the sickest, but they should liberate the other 70," said de Miranda.
De Miranda had been accused of acting like "a mercenary in the service of the United States to undermine the Cuban revolution."
The imprisonment of the 75 dissidents in 2003 was the worst blow to the opposition movement in decades. De Miranda is the fifth dissident to be released by the Cuban government for health reasons in the last three months.
