Normando Hernandez Gonzalez: 7 Years in Prison For Writing About Bread

In March 2003, Normando Hernández González was among seventy—five Cuban journalists who were hunted down and arrested in what became known as the "Black Spring." For reporting outside the regime—endorsed perspective, the men were tried and sentenced to Cuba's harshest prisons. Under the most brutal conditions, the journalists remained united, protesting to protect their countrymen's human rights. After nearly a decade, the Cuban government finally released and exiled the dissenters in 2010,...