SANTIAGO DE CUBA, May 2 (Luis Alberto Rivera, APLO) - An officer of the
Technical Investigations Department beat and kicked a man who had distributed
about 300 newsletters published by CubaNet in Miami.
Edgardo Mosqueda Pérez, 27, had been picked up by police after what
they initially described as a drug raid at his home, at about 1:00 p.m. on April
27, and taken to the 4th police precinct, in Santiago de Cuba. Once there, he
was not questioned about drugs at all, he said. Police rather wanted to know who
had given him the CubaNet newsletters he had distributed that morning among
residents of the "Mariana de la Torre" neighborhood.
Since Mosqueda wouldn't name names, a lieutenant who only identified himself
as Moya went into the interrogation room, beat him around the face, threw him on
the ground and kicked him repeatedly, as he demanded to know who had given him
the newsletters. At 3:00 p.m. Mosqueda was released after having been booked for
"social dangerousness."
In Cuba, a third warning for social dangerousness may translate into a jail
sentence of several years. Reportedly, this was Mosqueda's first such warning.
Mosqueda, who is not associated with any of the dissident groups on the
island, said that "the CubaNet newsletters contribute to the people knowing
the truth about what happens in Cuba."
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States whose purpose is to promote the development of a free press and a civil
society in Cuba. The CubaNet newsletters contain articles by Cuban independent
journalists whose work is not published in the island's government-controlled
press.
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