Menendez & Rubio Talk With Antunez Upon Release

Wednesday, June 13, 2012
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) spoke this afternoon via teleconference with Cuban pro-democracy leader Jorge Luis Garcia Perez "Antunez," who was brutally beaten and arrested over the weekend for testifying at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Antunez was released this morning, but is now facing charges of "resistance" and "spreading false information."

Senators Menendez and Rubio spoke to the media after the call: