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FROM
CUBA
Independent journalist receives death threat
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, September 2 (Guillermo
Fariñas, Cubanacán Press /
www.cubanet.org) - Independent journalist
Karel Castillo Pérez de Alejo, who
is also a political activist, received a
death threat this week from one of several
men waiting for her outside her mother's
me.
"When I went up the steps, one of
them approached me and shouted, 'If you
go to the meeting tomorrow, I'll kill you,
worm!'"
She said the men were dressed in olive
clothing. The term "worm" is often
used by government supporters to denote
those in opposition.
The threat came on the eve of a weekly
meeting of "Plantados hasta la Libertad
y la Democracia en Cuba" at which Castillo
reads from the Bible and those in attendance
pray for political prisoners. The death
threat was not carried out at the meeting
held August 31.
Besides writing for the Cubanacán
Press, Castillo is deputy coordinator of
youth affairs for the Democratic Christian
Movement of Cuba.
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