A prominent Cuban dissident, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, will go into exile in the US on Saturday after completing a five-year prison sentence in the communist-run Caribbean nation, according to his supporters and a US embassy official.
Background
Otero Alcántara has been granted immigration parole in the US, a Facebook page maintained by family and supporters said Friday. He will be released by the Cuban government and travel to the US with his family, a US embassy official told CNN.
Otero Alcántara has been the highest profile dissident jailed in Cuba since the July 11, 2021, protests over Cuba’s lack of freedoms and worsening economy. Before his arrest in 2021, Otero Alcántara and other members of his San Isidro Movement used social media to document their campaign against official censorship and the Cuban police and security officials that often shadowed their every move.
Original reporting: El Paso News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
