CUBA NEWS
March 10, 2003

FROM CUBA
President of Young People for Liberty threatened

HAVANA, Cuba, March 9 (Ernesto Roque / www.cubanet.org) - State security agents last week picked up for questioning Lizan Viñas Estrada, president of Young People for Liberty, a dissident organization formed in December.

Viñas Estrada said an agent named Frank told him during questioning at the Calabazar police station in Havana that he could be sentenced to 20 years in prison for "manipulating young people and encouraging them to be counterrevolutionaries." He also said that during 2 ½ hours of questioning the agent threatened to tell his ailing grandmother about what he was doing.

The dissident movement counts more than 20 persons between the ages of 17 and 30 among its adherents


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