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CUBA
NEWS
The
Information Bridge Cuba Miami
Normando Hernández González
brutally beaten in prison
(CAMAGUEY, Cuba, May 17 / Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
- Several prison officials at Kilo 5 ½
brutally attacked, and then carried political
prisoner and independent journalist Normando
Hernández González by force
in order to transfer him to a section that
houses only common prisoners, declared his
wife, Yarai Reyes.
In testimony given on May 15, 2004, in
a telephone conversation with MAR for CUBA,
Yarai Reyes stated that her husband Normando
was transferred to Common Prisoners Area
2, Cubicle 8 of the prison Kilo 5 ½
in Pinar del Río.
"The prison director and three more
officials carried Normando by force after
he yelled Down with Fidel!, they brutally
attacked him and then transferred him to
a section with 106 common prisoners, in
deplorable and inhumane conditions"-
pointed out Yaria.
"Normando is in a hunger strike since
last Friday, and two common prisoners joined
him in the protest"- she further stated
that at the end of the visit, members of
the State Security advised her that a transfer
and physical treatment depended on Normando's
attitude.
On the other hand, family members were
able to learn that common prisoners had
been encouraged by prison authorities to
attack Normando.
The 32 year old Cuban independent journalist
Normando Hernández González
was tried summarily and sentenced to 25
years, at the Provincial Popular Tribunal
of Camaguey, on the wave of repression against
the civil society on 2003. He was accused
of crimes "against the independence
and territorial integrity of the State".
M.A.R. FOR CUBA
Mothers and Women against Repression for
Cuba
Official Site / Sitio Oficial: www.marporcuba.org
E-Mail / Correo: MarporCuba@aol.com
Given to the Information
Bridge Cuba Miami by Net For Cuba on the
16 day of May 2004. Information Source:
MAR for CUBA. Translation by the Information
Bridge Cuba Miami, May 16, 2004.
Political prisoner sent to punishment
cell for having a magazine in his cell
(HAVANA, Cuba, May 17 / Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
- The political prisoner Julián Enrique
Martínez Báez was sent to
a punishment cell in the Quivicán
Prison as a result of having in his cell
a magazine of the Cuban Workers Federation
of Water, Gas and Electric Industries, edited
in Miami, Florida, declared Leonardo Rodríguez
Valdés, Grupo Decoro.
According to information provided by Luis
González Medina, a member of the
Cuban Pro Human Rights Party, affiliated
to the Andrei Sajarov Foundation, with Martínez
Gómez, there are now three member
of the above mentioned party in punishment
cells at Quivicán. The other two
being Emilio Leyva Pérez y Carlos
Martín Gómez.
Given to the Information
Bridge Cuba Miami by Net For Cuba on May
15, 204. Source of the Information: Fundación
Patria Libre.
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