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Police warn former political prisoner
HAVANA, Cuba - July 24 (José Antonio
Fornaris, Cuba-Verdad / www.cubanet.org)
- Former political prisoner José
Manuel Pereira said he was called in by
police and promised he would get four years
in prison if he attempted to leave the country
"by irregular means."
Pereira said a State Security officer who
calls himself Mario told him that no one
who participated in activities in opposition
to the government would be allowed to leave
the country. Then, Pereira said, the official
added: "And if you attempt to leave
the country illegally you'll go to prison
for four years."
Pereira said the officer also warned him
that he would have to rein in his wife,
Gloria González, who has been participating
in activities in support of the Ladies in
White, a group consisting mostly of the
wives and mothers of those sentenced to
long prison terms in the Spring of 2003.
González herself is pregnant.
Pereira was in prison during most of 2002
and 2003 but was never tried. He is a member
of the Andrei Sacharov Party for Human Rights.
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