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FROM
CUBA
Cuban
idependent journalist held in solitary confinement
SANTA CLARA, August 12 (www.cubanet.org).- Independent
journalist Omar Ruiz Hernández is being
held in solitary confinement at the Guantánamo
provincial prison in the eastern end of the island.
Ruiz was sentenced to 18 years in April along
with 74 other journalists and dissidents. He used
to work with Grupo Decoro, one of several independent
news agencies.
Ruiz complains that letters he writes every week
do not reach their intended recipients. Recently,
his wife, Bárbara Rojo, in what turned
into a shouting match on the street, questioned
an officer of the political police, Fulgencio
Bagué, about the letters. A few days later
she received several letters from her husband,
but he still is not receiving hers.
Ruiz explains in one of his letters that the
seven prisoners of conscience jailed with him
are segregated from the general population and
housed in cells spaced in such a way that conversation
among them is difficult.
Ruiz says that notwithstanding this, the prisoners
are in good spirits.
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