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Here is the link to the testimony given by Pedro Pablo Alvarez Ramos on October 28, 2008 to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: http://www.oas.org/oaspage/videosasf/2008/10/CIDHmartes5_sindicalistas_cuba.wmv
Pedro Pablo Alvarez Ramos was born in Havana, Cuba, on 25 January 1948.
He has been living in exile in Spain since 17 February last, after spending four years and eleven months unjustly detained. He was arrested on 18 March 2003, along with 73 comrades and one female comrade. At the time of his arrest he was General Secretary of the United Workers' Council of Cuba (CUTC), an organization for the defence of the trade union rights of Cuban workers, and Director of the Varela Project.
He was judged at a summary trial, with prosecution demand for life imprisonment, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
To read the full biography of Pedro Pablo Alvarez Ramos click here.
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