CAMAGÜEY, Noviembre 30 (Normando Hernández, CPIC /
www.cubanet.org) - A beating by police sent human rights activist Yurisan
Santiesteban, 26, to the hospital.
"Santiesteban has bruises all over, and a possible fracture of his
right cheekbone," said Ezequiel Morales Carmenate, of the Pro-Human Rights
Party in Las Tunas.
Santiesteban was reportedly beaten by police in Puerto Padre, and is now in "Guillermo
Domínguez" hospital there.
According to reports, on November 27 two men visited him at the hospital and
tried to dissuade him from accusing the policemen who beat him. One of the men,
according to the report, is an officer of the Technical Investigations
Department known as "Raulito."
Santiesteban's relatives have tried to lodge a judicial complaint, but
authorities have not accepted it.
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