Cuban dissident artist hospitalised amid hunger strike

Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, a leader of the San Isidro movement, went on hunger strike to protest against the seizure of his art.

A leading Cuban dissident artist has been hospitalised after spending one week on a hunger strike in protest of the government’s seizure of his art, with health authorities in the capital Havana saying he is in stable condition. The Havana public health department said on Sunday that 33-year-old Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, a leader of the San Isidro protest movement (MSI), had been taken to General Calixto Garcia University Hospital. The department said he showed symptoms of “voluntary starvation”, but he was stable and being attended to by physicians.