A group of Human Rights Defenders are joining the international campaign of solidarity in support of Guillermo Farinas, Sajarov prize recipient awarded by the European Union, together with sixteen others members of pacific opposition movements in Cuba who are also in a hunger strike pleading the same vindication.

The most worrisome situation is that of Mr. Farinas who has been several days on a hunger strike abstaining also from drinking water or any other fluid. He lost conscience and was admitted to the provincial Hospital de Santa Clara about 300km from Havana. The other strikers have spent more than two weeks self deprived of food but are drinking water. However, they also present with signs and symptoms of health deterioration.

Farinas and the other participants demand from the authorities; an end to unjustified police brutality against men and women members of non-violent opposition movement resistant to the government of general Raul Castro, they also request from the authorities to stop vandalizing their private property, illegally entering their homes and confiscating equipment and resources used by the pacifist dissidents to carry out their daily work and activities.

In addition to the need to respect international standards of human rights, the strikers ask of the Cuban government to agree to abide by their own laws, this refers specifically to matters of due process which are stipulated in the penal code of the Cuban constitution. If the government commits to respect their own rules, these dangerous hunger strikes could come to an end immediately.