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Prima News.
Moscow, 14.2.2003.
Prison administration sets criminals against political prisoners
Havana, CUBA. Prison officers at prison 1580 in Havana set common inmates
against political prisoners, trying to force the latter to "cooperate with
the administration".
Political prisoners Iosvany Aguilar Camejo, Miguel Moure Saladrigas and
Augusto Guerra Marquez have recently sent a letter from the prison. In the
letter they report that on February 6 of this year the head of the prison and a
re-education officer told them they had lost in the competition with other
companies because they (the political prisoners) had "refused to cooperate".
The common inmates began to threaten them with violence and death in the
presence of the officers, who remained silent.
Hours later, the three political prisoners were taken to the reeducation
officer's premises where a group of common inmates had been gathered to confront
them. In the officer's presence, they reiterated their threats. Political
prisoners asked the officer what was the reason for this, but he remained
silent.
Relatives of political prisoner picket the prison
Havana, CUBA. Police officers in Sancti Spiritus province arrested relatives
of political prisoner Mario Perez Aguilera, who is holding a hunger strike in
Nieves Morejon prison.
Bertha Antunez Pernet, president of the Civic Resistance Movement, reported
that Tamara Agramonte Grau and Iris Perez Aguilera, wife and sister of the
prisoner, had for several days picketed Nieves Morejon prison, demanding to be
informed about the reasons of his hunger strike. On February 10, police arrested
the wife and sister of the imprisoned dissident. Bertha Antunez Pernet and
independent journalist Maria Elena Alpizar who came there to support the women
and to cover their protest were forced out from prison territory.
Dissident Noel Salabarria Gonzalez, who witnessed the scene, entered the
police car in solidarity with the arrested women. One of police officers beat
Salabarria. Then the three were taken to a police station in Sancti Spiritus.
They were released the same afternoon and resumed the protest. | 
