Recently freed Cuban political prisoner Ariel Sigler, 44, who is paralyzed from the waist down, is transported to a Miami-Dade Rescue truck, to be taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital after his arrival at Miami International Airport. Sigler was among 75 opposition activists rounded up in March 2003 and charged with taking money from Washington to destabilize Cuba's government. Those imprisoned denied that, as did U.S. officials. Sigler served more than seven years of a 25-year sentence for treason. He went to prison an athlete and boxer, but paralysis that occurred while behind bars requires him to use to a wheelchair.
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