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HAVANA, June 25 (www.cubanet.org) - An agent of the political police in the
Isle of Youth, off the coast of Havana province, threatened to send an
independent journalist to prison for 20 years unless he quit sending news
stories abroad, including to CubaNet.
Carlos Serpa, 35, says he received a late-night visit from political police
agent Vladimir Rodes La O, who told him that "any news of the Isle of Youth
published by CubaNet would be my responsibility, and that I would have to
answer."
According to Serpa, the agent told him that independent journalists Fabio
Prieto and Víctor Rolando Arroyo are in prison because they wouldn't
listen to advice.
Serpa said the agent, who came accompanied by captain of the Department of
State Security Gerardo Audia Frómeta, reminded him that he has an open
pending file as a violator of Law 88, the gag law.
Serpa, who lives in the Isle of Youth and may be the only independent
journalist left there, said he intends to continue working.
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