Cuba - 3 Dissidents Are Released, Rights Group Says - NYTimes.com Amnesty International said Monday that three antigovernment protesters held without charge for 52 days were released last week, hours after the human rights group identified them as prisoners of conscience. They were released Friday, a day after a hunger-striking dissident died, prompting condemnation from dissidents and human rights groups. The freed dissidents - Ivonne Malleza Galano, Ignacio Martínez Montejo and Isabel Haydee Álvarez - were threatened with "harsh sentences" if they did not stop their anti-government actions, Amnesty said.