A Cuban dissident who has spent a week on a hunger strike has been rushed to a hospital in central Cuba after losing consciousness, a family spokeswoman told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Guillermo Farinas, a journalist who files Internet dispatches in defiance of state control of nearly all domestic media, has held at least 24 hunger strikes since 1997 ...

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Security agents detained dissidents across Cuba Wednesday to prevent protests at the funeral of a leading dissident whose death in a prison hunger strike has sparked international outrage, an activist said. Orlando Zapata, 42, was to be buried in his hometown of Banes, 830 kilometers (500 miles) east of Havana, after a wake at the home of his mother, who ...