
Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that insufficient medical assistance is being provided for human rights defender Normando Hernández González, detained in solitary confinement. Normando Hernández González is the director of the Colegio de Periodistas Independientes de Camagüey (School of Independent Journalists of Camagüey). On 24 March 2003, he was arrested for his pro-democracy work as part of a series of arrests of activists termed the Grupo de 75 (Group of 75). 