The CANF has called on Cubans in exile and “all the brothers in solidarity with the cause of freedom and democracy that live in this city,” to expressits “condemnation of this new atrocity of the Castro regime.”

Zapata Tamayo, recognized by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience, died Tuesday in Cuba after a hunger strike 85 days and the majority of Cuban exile organizations responsible for his death to the Castro regime .

“The death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo is a crime not only against a particular individual, but an affront to freedom and democracy in all corners of our continent,” emphasized the CANF in a statement.

The death comes nearly 40 years after the death of political prisoner and student leader Cuban Pedro Luis Boitel in 1971, under circumstances similar to those of Zapata Tamayo, highlighted.

The event will take place on the famous Calle 8, where the greatest area of the Cuban diaspora in southern Florida (USA).

The protest was part of several events organized in the United States upon the death of the dissident.

Among the events is a Mass to be held today in night at the Ermita de la Caridad, a church of great importance for the Cuban exile since 1967.

Meanwhile, Florida”s Cuban-American congressmen Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart reported involving today at a vigil in “honor the Cuban martyr, Orlando Zapata Tamayo” in front of the Cuba Interests Section in Washington.

Zapata Tamayo was maintained at fasting requiring compliance where appropriate the minimum standards of treatment of prisoners adopted by the United Nations Organization (UNO).

The opposition, by profession a mason, was one of 75 dissidents arrested in 2003 during the ” Black Spring “and accused of conspiring with the U.S., among other crimes.