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CUBA
Cuban dissident brothers fined, demoted
HAVANA, Cuba, November 3 (José
Antonio Fornaris, Cuba Verdad / www.cubanet.org)
- Cuban authorities have demoted two brothers
to lesser jobs at the factory where they
work and fined them 1,500 pesos each, accusing
them of plotting to leave the country illegally.
Manuel and Luis Pérez worked as
brigade heads at the gasket factory in El
Cotorro, outside of Havana. They are now
assigned to lesser positions at a lower
salary.
Luis denies harboring intentions of leaving
the country illegally. His home was searched
October 5. Manuel is a member of the dissident
organization Partido Democrático
30 de Noviembre and says authorities have
taken reprisals against him before.
Authorities held the brothers for three
days and fined them 1,500 pesos, the equivalent
of the average salary for six months' work.
A cousin, Camilo Pérez, said both
brothers are constantly hounded by State
Security, Communist Party, and workplace
officials.
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