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FROM
CUBA
Teacher jailed for lack of ID card
HAVANA, Cuba - July 21 (José Antonio
Fornaris, Cuba Verdad / www.cubanet.org)
- A high school Physics teacher was kept
in jail for 36 hours when he failed to produce
an ID card during a search on his way to
work.
Ángel Blanco, 28, was on his way
to school, the José Manuel Betance
high school, in Alquízar, on the
outskirts of Havana, when police searched
him and asked for his ID card. Blanco didn't
have his card with him and police took him
to the station located at Dragones and Zulueta
Streets, in Old Havana.
Once there, Blanco said he had been kept
in a cell with eight other persons, some
of whom he said were considered dangerous
and who tried to find an opportunity to
assault him.
Blanco was not released until his mother
appeared at the station with his ID card.
Blanco's mother said she had called the
police when her son failed to show up as
expected, but was told he was not detained.
She said she didn't know where he was until
someone called her and told her he was at
the police station.
When she complained about the treatment,
Blanco's mother said a young officer called
her aside and told her "it would be
best to keep quiet because things could
get complicated."
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