Agence France-PresseJune 18, 2013 15:01
The widow and daughter of late Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, who are visiting relatives in Miami, said on Tuesday that they plan to seek asylum in the United States.
"We are political refugees, because we are politically persecuted in Cuba," said Ofelia Acevedo, whose deceased husband founded the Christian Liberation Movement dissident group.
"We did not come here seeking political asylum, but we are, quite simply, refugees who have found ourselves in this country," she told a press conference at a Miami church.
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