La Cabaña Fortress in Havana. Image: Wikimedia Commons
(via International Herald Tribune)
PINAR DEL RIO, CUBA The death sentence was asked for Frank Austin Young, former Royal Air Force pilot, by the prosecutor early today [Dec. 1] as a military tribunal ended an 18-hour trial of two Americans and 37 Cubans accused of conspiring to overthrow the Fidel Castro regime. The prosecution also demanded the firing squad for Fernando Pruno Bertot, 24-year-old Cuban and former student at Columbia University in New York. A second trial was scheduled to start last night in Havana’s old Cabana Fortress but it was postponed without explanation.