Dear Sisters and Brothers:

I am dictating these words via telephone, which is why I must be brief and I will not be able to say everything I would have liked. Yesterday afternoon I was removed from "the hole" with the same speed in which I was thrown in. I had been taken there supposedly because I was under investigation.

The Nobel Literature Laureate Ms. Nadine Gordimer signed the urgent appeal of the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Free the Five requesting the immediate end of the cruel and inhuman treatment currently imposed on Gerardo Hernández.