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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