HAVANA, August 21 (Ricardo González Alfonso) – Officers of the department of State Security arrested independent journalist Luis Alberto Rivera August 18 in Havana and questioned him for six hours.

Rivera, 31, is the director of the Eastern Free Press Agency, in Santiago de Cuba, and was visiting Havana at the time.

The two agents picked-up Rivera at 11 a.m. in the Chinese quarter of the city and took him to the nearest police station, and then, in a blue Lada, to a safe house which Rivera describes as being surrounded by a tall, concrete fence. There, agents questioned Rivera, trying to persuade him to abandon his activities in journalism.

Among other things, agents made defamatory statements about other independent journalists. They invited Rivera to lunch, which he didn’t accept, and finally released him at 5 p.m. at the other end of Havana from where he had been picked-up.

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