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FROM
CUBA
Imprisioned journalist Vázquez Portal
hospitalized
HAVANA, January 16 (www.cubanet.org) -
Ailing independent journalist and poet Manuel
Vázquez Portal, serving an 18-year
jail sentence for crimes against state security,
has been transferred to the Ambrosio Grillo
Hospital in Santiago de Cuba.
Yolanda Huerga Cedeño, wife of the
50-year-old prisoner, went to the hospital
but was not allowed to see her husband.
"The guard told me I'd need authorization
from State Security in order to see him,"
she said. "The guard called by telephone
but my right was denied me."
Vázquez Portal, a heavy smoker,
was hospitalized after an X-ray showed he
had spots on his lungs.
His wife said he has a heavy cold and has
been running a fever lately.
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