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Journalist harassed by police HAVANA, Cuba -March 1
(Roberto Santana Rodríguez / www.cubanet.org) - Independent journalist
Oscar Sánchez said police in Matanzas picked him up February 25, took him
to the station, and confiscated papers he had on him for the story he was working
on. Sánchez called the incident a reprisal by the Department of State
Security for recent articles he had written about social problems in Matanzas,
most prominently on alcoholism, AIDS, drug-addiction, and corruption by a government
official in the town of Pedro Betancourt. Sánchez said several officers
questioned him while he was detained. They asked him whether he is an independent
journalist, what is independent journalism, and whether he had studied journalism
and how much he is paid. The Cuban government licenses journalists and does
not consider the independents to be journalists. Versión
original en español | 
