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FROM
CUBA
Cuban dissident sentenced to a third year
in prison; warned for "inciting to rebellion"
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, December 3 (María
Elena Alpízar, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org)
- Atila Sáez was sentenced on November
25 to two years in prison for "disrespect"
toward Fidel Castro. On December 2, he was
sentenced to one more year for disrespect
toward the court that tried him in the first
instance.
Sáez, 23, was tried by the Municipal
Tribunal of Placetas, Villa Clara province.
During the first trial, there was an altercation
between him and the presiding judge, ended
only after several police forcefully pinned
Sáez down.
Outside the courtroom, several dissidents
who had not been allowed into the courtroom
milled about in a show of support for Sáez.
A few hours after the trial, activist José
Antonio Pérez said, two officers
of the political police showed up at his
home and told him he was "inciting
to rebellion" since at the first trial
he had been present by himself and at this
second trial he had brought five more dissidents
with him. Pérez said police told
him he would face the consequences.
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