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FROM
CUBA
Prisoner loses conjugal rights over re-education
program
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, November 16 (Guillermo
Fariñas, Cubanacán Press /
www.cubanet.org) - Léster González
Pentón, who was sentenced to 20 years
imprisonment in the 2003 crackdown on dissidents,
says his conjugal rights have been withdrawn
because he refused to attend Communist indoctrination
classes.
At 27 the youngest of the Group of 75,
González Pentón said in a
note slipped out of the Villa Clara Youth
Prison that all other prisoners in his wing
went to an audio-visual presentation November
8. When he refused, he said prison official
Eraclides Peligrí visited his cell.
"He threatened to withdraw my trimestral
conjugal rights if I didn't go to the classes,"
he said.
"I am an internationally recognized
prisoner of conscience, imprisoned unjustly
because of my way of thinking, but I refuse
to be indoctrinated in Communist policies
which I do not accept, even if this means
I can no longer see my relatives,"
he said.
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