HAVANA (Reuters) - Leading Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer said he was released from jail on Friday, six months after his arrest, but sentenced to 4-1/2 years of house arrest after a court ruled him guilty of assault - a charge he denies.
Speaking by phone from the city of Santiago de Cuba where he lives, some 500 miles east of Havana, Ferrer told Reuters he would not comply with one of the conditions of his house arrest: that he refrain from political activism.
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