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Daughter to seek probe into Cuban dissident's death

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Agence France-Presse
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Published Date: 
04/09/2013

Rosa María Payá recently told an audience at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that she would ask the Inter-American Human Rights Commission for an investigation of the car crash that killed her father, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá. Payá said her family is requesting the investigation "to draw attention to the repression of people in Cuba."

“Payá was one of the Cuban government's most prominent critics, and his death caused an international storm. Several US legislators are supporting the Payá family request for an international investigation, which will be formally presented to the commission on Wednesday.”