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FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalist's daughter pressured
HAVANA, July 31 (www.cubanet.org) - Officials
of the Department of State Security in Pinar del
Río summoned the daughter of independent
journalist Adela Soto to the department's provincial
headquarters and grilled her for more than four
hours.
Radelis Rodríguez, Soto's daughter, said
the main thrust of the interview was to pressure
her to convince her mother to abandon her journalistic
activities. Rodríguez said officers told
her Soto would be subject to Law 88, the Gag law,
and could face up to 20 years in prison.
Soto had been held under house arrest during
the recent wave of repression against civil society.
More recently, a number of intellectuals loyal
to the government held a rally repudiating Soto
in a Pinar del Río park.
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