I am writing to urge you to order the release of Juan Carlos González Leiva, a human rights activist, as well as five other activists (Delio Laureano Requejo, Lázaro Iglesias Estrada, Virgilio Mantilla Arango, Enrique García Morejón, and Antonio García Morejón) and two independent journalists (Léxter Téllez Castro and Carlos Brizuela Yera) who were beaten and arbitrarily jailed by Cuban law enforcement authorities on March 4, 2002, in Ciego de Avila, Cuba.