Alfredo Domínguez Batista (born November 15, 1961) is a
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
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dissident
A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution. In a religious context, the word has been used since the 18th century, and in the political sense since the 2 ...
.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members a ...
has declared him as a
prisoner of conscience
A prisoner of conscience (POC) is anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views. The term also refers to those who have been imprisoned or persecuted for the nonviolent expression of their conscienti ...
.
He is a member of the
Christian Liberation Movement
The Christian Liberation Movement ( or simply MCL) is a Cuban dissident party advocating political change in Cuba. MCL was founded in 1987 by a group of secular Catholics belonging to the Parish of Cerro, in Havana. From the movement's founding ...
and was involved in the
Varela project
The Varela Project () is a project that was started in 1998 by Oswaldo Payá of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) and named after Felix Varela, a Cuban religious leader.
Many members were imprisoned during the Black Spring in 2003.
The Va ...
.
He was arrested during the
Black Spring in 2003 and sentenced to 14 years in jail.
References
External links
A site about Alfredo Domínguez Batista
1961 births
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Cuba
Cuban democracy activists
Cuban dissidents
Living people
Cuban prisoners and detainees
Black Spring detainees
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