He said that the key to enduring his imprisonment was to stay "physically, mentally and spiritually" fit, and remarked, "hopefully, touch wood, I haven't come out of it too damaged".
Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a high-ranking Cuban economist and diplomat who became a vocal critic of Fidel Castro in the 1990s but chose to remain in Cuba, despite enduring harassment and imprisonment, died on Monday in Madrid, where he was undergoing medical treatment.
After enduring persecution and imprisonment for participation in noisy worship services, she had a series of revelations, after which she regarded herself and was so regarded by her followers as the female aspect of God's dual nature (e.g., male and female) and the second Incarnation of Christ.
He is seen as a pillar of moral probity for enduring the decades of imprisonment yet offering reconciliation with his white captors after his release.
The fourth case is Dr Alireza Raja'i, who after enduring five years of imprisonment is now battling the cancer of the jaw and face.
"I am going to continue this struggle, and I have no intention of stopping halfway," he said in an interview, after enduring eight months of imprisonment and a political trial that left him stripped of any right to run for office.
During his imprisonment, he reported enduring long stretches of interrogation that resulted in sleep deprivation.
Mandela wrote that he had learned much of value through enduring long, harsh years of imprisonment.
Nelson Mandela was enduring the seventeenth year of imprisonment on the fortress of Robben Island when the most audacious and spectacular sabotage attack against the apartheid regime was carried out with a bombing of South Africa's Secunda power plant.
