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HAVANA, March 20 (Ernesto Roque / www.cubanet.org) - The wave of home
searches and arrests begun by the government Tuesday afternoon keeps growing,
with some estimates placing the number of dissidents in custody at over a
hundred. The Union of Independent Journalists and the Cooperative of Independent
Journalists compiled a list of 23 independent journalists and 43 other
non-violent political opponents arrested as of 11:00 a.m. Thursday.
In all cases reported, authorities have confiscated computers, video
cameras, tape recorders, tapes and videocassettes, photographs, even personal
ones, documents, files, and literature.
Olga Ibarra Echevarría, who witnessed the search conducted at the
home of independent journalist Omar Rodríguez Saludes, who was
subsequently arrested, described it: "They watched all the videotapes they
found in Omar's own VCR.... During the search, the lights went out, and they
continued with two flashlights they brought from their cars, in which they
finally took him to Villa Marista, the State Security headquarters."
Most recently, phone calls to several well-known journalists, such as Fara
Armenteros, Manuel David Orrio, Anna Rosa Veitía, and Humberto Moré,
are directed to a recording that says: "The number you have reached is not
in service."
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