José Luis García Paneque

Sentenced to 24 years in Villa Clara, Santa Clara Provincial Prison.

José Luis García Paneque is a plastic surgeon and a director of Libertad agency (Las Tunas), sentenced in Las Tunas province. Prosecutors had asked for 18 years but the court raised the sentence to 24 without explanation. In July 2000, Paneque wrote an article titled "Doctors or slaves?" which was highly critical of the official practice of imposing internal exile on any physician who asked to leave the country legally. Married, Paneque has four children.