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Cuban
imprisoned journalist expecting disciplinary action
HAVANA, August 18 (www.cubanet.org) Imprisoned
Cuban journalist Normando Hernández is
expecting to be disciplined by prison authorities
after a late-night argument days ago, said his
wife Yaraí Reyes. Hernández is serving
a 25-year sentence in Boniato prison, in Santiago
de Cuba province.
He was able to phone his wife on August 16, and
described the incident.
"It was about one in the morning. We couldn't
sleep with the heat and the mosquitoes. Vázquez
[another journalist sentenced to 18 years] and
I were talking from his cell to mine. At some
point, a guard decided he didn't like what we
were saying and yelled at me: 'Quit talking shit.'
I was fed up and told him I was going to talk
all I wanted. At this time, all the other prisoners
in the cell block started yelling themselves and
insulting the guards."
Hernández told his wife that he had been
trying to phone her for over a week but hadn't
been allowed to.
Sra. Reyes said she feared authorities could
cancel Hernández upcoming visit, set for
August 28. That would be his first visit since
one last June.
"Imagine I should travel all that way with
a young child just to see my husband and then
be told when I get there that the visit has been
canceled?" said Reyes, who lives in Vertientes,
Camagüey province, about 250 miles away.
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