Radio Martí informs [in Spanish] that according to  the wife of political prisoner Egberto Escobedo Morales, he has been transferred to a hospital in the Cuban capital, La Habana. His health has deteriorated due to his hunger strike.

Escobedo has conducted a two month and two day long hunger strike in solidarity with Guillermo Fariñas, and as a show of support for those Cubans who refused to participate in the regime's electoral farse in April of this year.

He's been serving a twenty year sentence since 1995.