FROM
CUBA
Prominent dissident transferred to new prison
after medical tests
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, November 22 (www.cubanet.org)
- René Montes de Oca, secretary-general
of the Human Rights Party, has been transferred
from a local prison to one in Havana after
it was determined he had parasites.
Montes de Oca is serving an eight-year
prison sentence for insulting a government
official.
His sister, Yakelín Montes de Oca,
said that the head of the Pendiente prison
in Santa Clara conceded that the parasites
came from contaminated water. They were
discovered after an ultrasound test, she
said.
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