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SANTA CLARA, October 10 (Omar Ruiz, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org) -
Independent journalist Isabel Rey Rodríguez was fined 600 pesos for
reporting about a retired Interior Ministry official whose standard of living
cannot be justified by his ostensible pension income.
Before the official summons came, the official himself showed up at Rey’s
home and told her he had accused her of slander.
On October 7, Rey went to the Interior Ministry headquarters in Santa Clara,
Villa Clara province, in response to the official summons, and was told by an
officer that she would not be tried, but fined 600 pesos, a sum equivalent to
almost three times the average monthly salary in Cuba. She was given 72 hours to
pay the fine.
Rey, who is a reporter for the independent agency Cuba Press in Esperanza,
Villa Clara province, said the officer questioned her about her sources for the
story, which she refused to divulge.
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