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March 21, 2002



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Arrested activist in hunger strike

HAVANA, March 19 (Luis Viño Zimerman / www.cubanet.org) - Cuban activist Leonardo Miguel Bruzón, 46, has been on a hunger strike since March 15 in his cell at the Technical Investigations Department (DTI) in Havana, where he has been held since February 23.

Bruzón is protesting his arbitrary confinement and his lawyer’s inability to obtain the files on his case.

Attorney Jorge R. Betancourt, who represents Bruzón, filed a complaint March 14 with the provincial prosecutor’s office, in which he says that on four separate occasions he has been denied his client’s file.

Bruzón’s wife says she has been told by investigators at the DTI that her husband will be accused of "public disorder, disrespect, and resistance."

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Arrestados cuatro disidentes en La Habana / El Nuevo Herald


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