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FROM
CUBA
Independent journalist sent to isolation
cell for refusing to salute prison chief
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - May 25 (Pedro Pérez,
Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org)
- Independent journalist Omar Moisés
Ruiz Hernández was transferred to
an isolation cell this week for refusing
to salute the acting prison chief while
he exercised in the patio at the Canaleta
prison in Ciego de Avila.
Ruiz's wife, Barbara Rojo Arias, said her
husband telephoned her on Monday to say
he didn't know when they'd next be in contact
because he was being taken to the isolation
cell as punishment.
"Everything was provoked by an official
named Carlos, the acting prison chief, who
had offended my husband with obscene and
denigrating words because he refused to
stop in front of him," said Rojo Arias.
Ruiz Hernández was sentenced in
2003 to 18 years imprisonment.
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