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FROM
CUBA
Cuban
journalist learns of award from prison
HAVANA, October (www.cubanet.org) - Imprisoned
independent journalist Manuel Vázquez Portal
recently learned the New York-based Committee
for the Protection of Journalists had awarded
him one of its International Press Freedom Awards
for 2003.
"It's good to know that," said Vázquez
when his wife, Yolanda Huerga, told him by telephone.
Vázquez is serving an 18-year sentence
at the Aguadores prison in eastern Cuba. He is
one of 30 journalists presently in prison in Cuba.
He has continued to write from his cell, somehow
managing to smuggle his writings out of the prison.
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