BAYAMO, Cuba (AP) ? A Spanish political activist was tried Friday on charges of negligently causing the car crash that killed a prominent Cuban dissident. Defendant Angel Carromero's trial wrapped up in the evening in Bayamo, about 500 miles (800 kilometers) east of the capital and near the site of the July 22 highway crash in which Oswaldo Paya and another dissident, Harold Cepero, died. Authorities accused Carromero of speeding and charged him with the equivalent of vehicular manslaughter, and prosecutors asked the court for a seven-year sentence. Carromero's attorney argued Friday that it was impossible to determine the exact velocity of the vehicle, showed photographs of allegedly poor road signs warning of the upcoming roadwork that have since been replaced and asked for him to be acquitted. [...] a prominent pro-government blogger who uses the handle Yohandry Fontana accused Sanchez of planning to "attempt a provocation and media show that would damage the proper development of the trial." Paya, 60, was famous for leading the Varela Project, a petition that gathered thousands of signatures calling for a referendum on rights such as freedom of speech and assembly.
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