Arnaldo Ramos Lauzurique is a Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

n independent economist. Ramos Lauzerique and Marta Beatriz Roque

Marta Beatriz Roque

Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello is a prominent Cuban political dissident. She is an economist by training, and the founder as well as director of the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists-Politics Activities:Ms...

 founded the Instituto de Economía. The group of economists has exposed how the communist government uses false statistics when reporting to the people and to international organizations.

He was imprisoned during the Black Spring

Black Spring (Cuba)

Black Spring refers to the 2003 crackdown on Cuban dissidents. The government imprisoned 75 dissidents, that included 29 journalists, as well as librarians, human rights activists, and democracy activists, on the basis that they were acting as agents of the United States by accepting aid from...

 in 2003 and Amnesty International

Amnesty International

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 recognized him as a prisoner of conscience

Prisoner of conscience

Prisoner of conscience is a term defined in Peter Benenson's 1961 article "The Forgotten Prisoners" often used by the human rights group Amnesty International. It can refer to anyone imprisoned because of their race, religion, or political views...

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In August 2005 political prisoners Adolfo Fernández Sainz

Adolfo Fernández Sainz

Juan Adolfo Fernández Saínz is a Cuban journalist. Before his imprisonment, he was an independent journalist with the Patria news agency. Adolfo Fernández Sainz also contributed to foreign publications, particularly in Sweden...

 and Alfredo Domínguez Batista

Alfredo Domínguez Batista

Alfredo Domínguez Batista is a Cuban dissident. Amnesty International has declared him as a prisoner of conscience.He is a member of the Christian Liberation Movement and has been involved in the Varela project. He was arrested during the Black Spring in 2003 and sentenced to 14 years in...

went on a hunger strike after Ramos was beaten by guards.

Ramos was freed in November 2010.