Normando Hernandez Gonzalez: 7 Years in Prison For Writing About Bread (Broken Silence Series) - Softcover

González, Normando Hernández; Braver, Adam; Gessford, Molly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608010872 ISBN 13: 9781608010875

Publisher: University of New Orleans Press, 2015

Synopsis

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, Hernández among them. One year later, Adam Braver and Molly Gessford traveled to Madrid, Spain to meet Hernández and record his remarkable story.

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About the Author

Normando Hernandez Gonzalez was born on October 21, 1969 in Camaguey, Cuba. As an independent journalist, he was part of the group of seventy-five dissidents who were arrested and tried in 2003 in what is now known as the Black Spring. Hernandez was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Following a series of negotiations, he was released and exiled to Spain in 2010.

Among his awards and distinctions are the PEN Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award; the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt International Human Rights Award; the Fundacion Hispano Cubana International Human Rights Prize; and the Cuba Corps la Orden La Demajagua.

Hernandez currently resides with his wife and daughter in Miami, Florida. He continues to work as a practicing journalist, as well as serving as Director General of the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Speech and Press, a nonprofit NGO created by him to defend the inalienable freedoms of the Cuban people.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1608010872
• ISBN 13: 9781608010875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 179