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The Fidel Castro regime arrested him during the 2003 "Black Spring" and sentenced him to 20 years in jail. He was released in February, 2011. Amnesty International named him a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate release.
He was a nuclear engineer before being sacked at the end of the 1980s for ideological errors.
Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez was married to Laura Inés Pollán Toledo. She lost her job as a high school Spanish teacher in 2003.
Laura Inés Pollán Toledo died on October 14, 2011. In prison, Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez managed to write his memoirs, Enterrados Vivos (English: Buried Alive), which was smuggled out one page at time.
Upon his release in February, Meseda claimed that he was "released against his will," as he refused to leave jail unless he was exonerated or pardoned, along with the rest of the Black Spring prisoners.