Angel Santiesteban Included in the Defending Freedoms Project

Angel Santiesteban Included in the Defending Freedoms Project
Posted on March 2, 2015

24 February 2015 — In December 2012, the Tom Lantos Human Rights
Commission, together with the U.S. Commission on International Religious
Freedom and Amnesty International, U.S., created the Defending Freedoms
Project, with the objective of supporting human rights and religious
freedom worldwide, with a particular focus on prisoners of conscience.

Specifically, the members of Congress who "adopt" prisoners of
conscience, in solidarity with those brave men and women throughout the
world, pledge to plead publicly for their freedom.

Ángel Santiesteban-Prats and the journalist José Antonio Torres, both
Cuban political prisoners, have recently been included on the list.

This new recognition of Ángel Santiesteban-Prats is added to what he
recently received on behalf of the German Eurodeputy, Dr. Christian
Ehlerquien, who assumed the political sponsorship of the imprisoned
Cuban writer.

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