Hector Maseda, whose wife, Laura Pollan, heads the “Ladies in White,” Cuba’s leading dissident group, was told on Friday he could go free after almost eight years behind bars. But he said he would not leave until the government dropped its insistence on keeping him on parole.
He said he was taken from prison yesterday against his will and was still on parole, which imposes conditions on his freedom.
“Today, tomorrow and all the time, I will say I am being freed against my will and I am being forced by (the government). I do not agree with (parole),” he told Reuters from his home in Central Havana.
Maseda, 68, who heads the outlawed Liberal Party, vowed to resume the dissident activities that got him thrown in jail in the first place.
“I have to continue now doing the same in opposition,” he said.
