FROM
CUBA
Cuban
independent journalist freed after seven
years of imprisonment
HAVANA, November 14 (www.cubanet.org)
- Independent journalist Bernardo Rogelio
Arévalo Padrón was released
from prison this week after serving a seven-year
sentence for being disrespectful to President
Fidel Castro.
Shortly after leaving the Ariza prison
near Cienfuegos, Arévalo Padrón
telephoned Pedro Castellanos, president
of the opposition Democracia movement, to
give him the news.
He was arrested August 13, 1996.
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