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December 12, 2002



FROM CUBA

Independent journalist held, fined

HAVANA, December 10 (Ana Rosa Veitía, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) - Independent journalist Juan Carlos Garcell, of the Eastern Free Press Agency (Agencia de Prensa Libre Oriental) was arrested yesterday as he covered a human rights demonstration in Moa, Holguín province.

Garcell was taken to Department of State Security headquarters and later released after being fined 40 pesos.

Garcell had been covering activities held by dissident groups in commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the proclamation of the U. N. Declaration of Human Rights.


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