Victims of Apartheid Cuba....what is their crime?

Name: Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina

Age: 43

Sentence: 6 Years (Released in July 2005, after five years and four months in prison)Accusation: Charged with “contempt” and “disrespecting the figure of the commander-in-chief.”

Name: Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet González

Age: 46

Sentence: 25 Years

Accusation: Accused of “serving as a mercenary to a foreign state” and displaying the Cuban flag upside down. Leader of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights which seeks to establish in Cuba “a state based on the rule of law.”

Name: Jose Daniel Ferrer García

Age: 37

Sentence: 25 Years

Accusation: Supporter of the Varela Project and coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement; two organizations deemed counter-revolutionary by the Cuban government. Charged with "acts against the independence or the territorial integrity of the State."

Name: Luis Enrique Ferrer García

Age: 35

Sentence: 28 Years

Accusation: Member of the Varela Project and coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement. Charged with "acts against the independence or the territorial integrity of the State.”