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HAVANA, November 14 (Ana Rosa Veitía, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) -
Political police have threatened three independent Cuban journalists in the past
few days with sanctions under the "gag" law, or law 88, which has
been in the books since 1999 but has never been applied.
The journalists, Fara Armenteros, Víctor Manuel Domínguez, and
Ana Leonor Pérez, publish their work mostly through the CubaNet website
() and through radio stations in the U. S.
Armenteros was interrogated November 12 by a captain of the State Security
Department who only gave his name as Jesús at the offices of the Identity
Card Bureau in Diez de Octubre, Havana. A few days earlier, Domínguez and
Díaz had had similar meetings with the official.
ED Note: "Promulgated in February 1999, the "88
Law" weighs like the Sword of Damocles over any person who "collaborates,
by any means whatsoever, with radio or television programmes, magazines or any
other foreign media" or "provides information" considered likely
to serve US policy. The law provides for very heavy sentences: up to 20 years'
imprisonment, confiscation of all personal belongings and fines up to 100,000
pesos." - RSF
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Related
LAW 88 - Cuba: back
to darkness / Andres Oppenheimer / Free Cuba Foundation
Ley 88 (Ley
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