MADRID—A well-known Cuban dissident urged support from Europe on
Tuesday for her group advocating democracy in Cuba, and wasn't
fazed when protesters disrupted her first appearance abroad by
unfurling a pro-government banner and yelling that she was lying
about harsh conditions for citizens of the island nation.  Berta
Soler, the most prominent member of the Ladies in White group,
told a crowd of about 100 in Madrid that she was basking in her
first opportunity to say what she wants without fearing
retribution. She had never been allowed to leave Cuba before.
Soler alleged that Cuba keeps about 80 dissidents locked up in
miserable jails alongside convicted murderers and rapists and
said the communist-run government led by Raul Castro only offers
Cubans "repression, misery and lots of hunger."  Most of those
inmates are not recognized as prisoners of conscience by
international human rights groups, however. Some were locked up
for nonpolitical crimes and became activists behind bars; others
are in jail for po