Antonio Augusto Villareal Acosta, Date of Birth
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Cuban dissident
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About Antonio Augusto Villareal Acosta
- Antonio Augusto Villarreal Acosta (born 1 September 1950, Morón, Cuba) is an economist, librarian, and Varela project coordinator.
- He published reports about problems of the transport facilities, the food supply and the housing shortage.He was arrest on 19 March 2003, during the Black Spring, a general crackdown on opposition activists.
- On 3 April, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
- Amnesty International declared him as a prisoner of conscience.
- In 2007, International Society for Human Rights reported that he was in an acutely critical condition, having lost 60% of his former weight.Villarreal was released on 13 July 2010 following an agreement between Fidel Castro, the Catholic Church, and the government of Spain.
- He then resettled in La Rioja, Spain.
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