Dissidents decry US bill to end Cuba travel ban
Dissidents decry US bill to end Cuba travel ban - Yahoo! News
By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer Will Weissert, Associated Press Writer – Thu Jun 17, 6:46 pm ET
HAVANA – Five days after his release for health reasons, a former Cuban political prisoner added his name to a letter signed by nearly 500 opposition activists decrying proposed legislation that would lift the U.S. travel ban to their country.
The letter, e-mailed to foreign reporters in Havana on Thursday, took the opposite approach of a statement last week supporting the same bill and signed by 74 dissidents, many with international notoriety — including Cuba's top blogger Yoani Sanchez, and Elizardo Sanchez, who is not related to Yoani but heads the island's top human rights group.