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FROM
CUBA
Physician set free to await trial
HAVANA, Cuba - August 3 (Roberto Santana
Rodríguez / www.cubanet.org) - Dr.
Tomás Fuentes, who had been arrested
July 16 after a confrontation with two policemen,
was set free August 2 and is awaiting trial
on charges of disrespect to the national
police and to the image of Fidel Castro.
The charges could result in a prison sentence
of up to four years.
Fuentes, 37, a graduate in general medicine
who has belonged to dissident organizations
for some time, said he was released moments
before being transferred to a holding prison
in Melena del Sur, Havana province, on account
of a bout of dengue fever which he said
he was infected with after his incarceration.
Fuentes said he was arrested as he returned
from the beach in a truck carrying passengers
and became embroiled in an altercation with
two out-of-uniform policemen who were roughing
up a young man. The policemen, he said,
diverted the truck to Guanajay, and left
him detained at the police station there.
"They beat me up, gave me two black
eyes, a dislocated shoulder, and a big hematoma
on the right leg," said Fuentes.
Fuentes said he already served a sentence
between 1998 and 2001.
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