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Bridge Cuba Miami
(ISLA DE PINOS, CUBA / February 16th -
Puenteinfocubamiami.org) - The
provincial prosecutor of Ciego de Avila has petitioned a 6 year prison term for
the brothers Antonio and Enrique Garcia Morejón, for disrespect towards
the figure of Fidel Castro, public disturbance, resistance and disobedience.
The brothers were arrested while carrying a peaceful demostration against
the beatings that Jesus Alvarez Castillo, a reporter from the Independent Press
Agency Cuba Press, was suffering from the hands of police officers.
The two brothers, imprisoned in the Ceramica Roja Prison, in Ciego de Avila,
Cuba, are being denied medical and religious attention, according to a
denouncement made by the Cuban Human Rights Foundation in Isla de Pinos.
Reporting from Isla de Pinos Lázaro Ricardo Pérez
García, President of the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights of Isla de
Pinos. Given to Ton February 16th, 2003. |