MATANZAS, 18 de may (Caridad Díaz Beltrán, Lux Info Press) -
The police has taken to harass and threaten the family of the six men involved
and waiting sentence for helping the group in which Elian Gonzalez and his
mother left the island.
"They keep pressuring me so I won't give any information about my
brother", expressed Miguel Hernández Santos, from Cardenas, brother
of one of the accused, Pedro Hernández Santos.
On May 8 Miguel received a citation to the offices of Security of the State
(DSE) for the next day. There he was informed that the case in which his brother
was involved was "in the hands of Fidel Castro and top government
officials, who are going to decide their fate", he said.
"This is a political case then", points Miguel Hernández
Santos, and adds he told the officer that he will continue to speak up for his
brother.
The prisoners are Pedro Hernández Santos, Francisco Gutiérrez
Pérez, Jorge Luis Chao Muñiz, Julio Regalado García, and
the brothers Leonel and Víctor Pupo Rodríguez. They are being kept
in the maximum-security prison Combinado del Sur, in Matanzas. There is still no
date set for the trial.
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