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HAVANA, March 20 (Fara Armenteros, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) - Six more
independent journalists were arrested Wednesday evening by State Security
officers, bringing to more than a hundred the number of arrests since Tuesday.
The arrested journalists are: Manuel Vázquez Portal, Héctor
Maseda, Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Adolfo Fernández Saínz, Enrique
Mayo, Fabio Llorente, and Carmelo Díaz Fernández.
Reports of the home searches are falling into a pattern. Groups of ten
officers, wearing black vests and latex gloves thoroughly search every nook and
cranny, confiscating mostly documents and equipment, such as tape recorders. The
officers don't seem to be rushed for time. In one of the first searches Tuesday,
ten officers took nine hours to search the apartment of independent journalist
Claudia Márquez Linares and her husband, also a dissident.
Other reports say officers also confiscate money they find. Dissident Miguel
Sigler Amaya said they took the money he was saving for medical tests.
There are also reports of an increased number of police in the streets
asking passersby for identity cards.
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