caption birth_place nationality article_title parents birth_date known_for residence notable_works image spouse education name occupation
addressing the epp political assembly camagüey , cuba cuban normando hernández gonzález
 blanca gonzales -lrb- mother -rrb- 21 october 1969 political prisoner miami , florida the cuban prisoner of conscience art of torture : memories of a former flickr 2010.jpg - europeanpeoplesparty - epp political assembly 13 september yarai reyes marin self-taught normando hernández gonzález journalist
normando hernández gonzález

normando hernández gonzález -lrb- born camagüey , october 21 , 1969 -rrb- is a cuban writer and journalist who now lives in the united states .
he was the youngest of 75 persons rounded up by cuban authorities on march 18 , 2003 , a day that is now commonly known as `` black spring . ''
arrested for having criticized conditions under the fidel castro government , he was held for seven years in various prisons , from 2003 to 2010 .
during his incarceration , he spent long periods in solitary confinement and was subject to beatings and torture .
released in 2010 as a result of efforts by the catholic church and the government of spain , hernández spent several months in madrid , where , he later said , he and his family were treating abusively by spanish authorities , whom he accused of serving as accomplices to `` the castro brothers . ''
in 2011 he accepted asylum in the u.s. , where he founded the cuban institute for freedom of expression and the press and the cuban foundation for human rights and became a reagan-fascell democracy fellow at the national endowment for democracy .
