LUIS ENRIQUE FERRER GARCIA,27

  Sentence: 28 years

  A member of the Christian Liberation Movement led by Oswaldo Payá, Ferrer was given the longest sentence of all the defendants. His brother, José Daniel,
  also a member of the Payá committee promoting the Varela Project, was tried and sentenced to 25 years. Prosecutors had asked for life imprisonment for
  both.

  FELIX NAVARRO RODRIGUEZ

  Sentence: 25 years

  Member of the Democratic Solidarity Party in province of Matanzas. Reporter for the Bureau of Independent Press. President of the Pedro Luis Boitel Pro
  Democracy Movement. Signatory in March 2000 of the ''All United'' manifesto, which asked for changes in Cuban society and demanded the release of all
  political prisoners. In 2001, he was fired from his job as a high school principal in the city of Perico after being arrested for ``spreading enemy
  propaganda.''

  ANGEL MOYA ACOSTA, 39

  Sentence: 20 years

  President of the Alternative Action Movement of Matanzas. Member of the Independent National Labor Federation. Signatory in March 2000 of the ''All
  United'' manifesto, which asked for changes in Cuban society and demanded the release of all political prisoners. In December 2000, Moya was sentenced
  to one year's imprisonment and 10 years of exile [obligatory permanence] in his home province, Matanzas, for the crime of ``contempt of authority.''

  JORGE OLIVERA CASTILLO, 41

  Sentence: 18 years

  Reporter for Havana Press and later its interim director. Former reporter for New Cuban Press. In a 1997 crackdown on independent journalists, he was
  denounced by Cuban authorities for ''consorting with the foreign media.'' Neighborhood vigilante groups ordered him to leave his Havana home and he was
  forced to sleep in park benches for a while. In November 1999, he was mentioned by name by Fidel Castro as one of the dissidents who allegedly planned
  to disrupt the Ibero-American Summit in Havana. Married, with a 10-year-old daughter.

  JOSE LUIS GARCIA PANEQUE, 37

  Sentence: 24 years

  Plastic surgeon and director of the independent news agency Freedom. Sentenced in Las Tunas province. Prosecutors had asked for 18 years but the court
  raised the sentence to 24 without explanation. In July 2000, Paneque wrote an article titled ''Doctors or slaves?'' that was highly critical of the official
  practice of imposing internal exile on any physician who asked to leave the country legally. Married, with four children.

                                                                                                                -- RENATO PEREZ