Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona

{{Short description|Cuban geographer and journalist}}

Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona is a Cuban geographer and journalist who was imprisoned on March 18, 2003, and sentenced to 26 years in prison, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/reports/2008/03/prison-caps.php|title=The Imprisoned|author=María Salazar|date=March 3, 2008|publisher=The Committee to Protect Journalists}} Carmona ended a 25 hunger strike on October 4, 2005, when he was removed from the prison and placed in a hospital in critical condition.{{cite web|url=http://www.rsf.org/Raul-Rivero-gives-support-to.html |title=Raúl Rivero gives support to Arroyo, who ends hunger strike |accessdate=2009-11-06 |date=2005-10-05 |work=Reporters Without Borders }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}

He was a journalist for the independent news agency Unión de Periodistas y Escritores Cubanos Independientes and directed a local independent library belonging to Varela project.