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theft charge against prominent Cuban dissident
dropped
HAVANA, October 21 (www.cubanet.org) -
A police prosecutor apologized October 17
to the president of the Democratic Solidarity
party, Fernando Sánchez, who had
been under investigation for the theft of
an automobile.
Sánchez was called to the sixth
unit of the National Police in the Havana
municipality of Marianao, where an officer
who identified himself as Camilo apologized
for the mistake regarding him, adding that
there were already two men in custody in
connection to the theft.
Sánchez said he told the officer
that it was easy to apologize after having
tried to involve him in a common theft,
which spoke poorly of the professionalism
of the police. He added, he said, that he
was certain the accusation was politically
motivated.
"You should make the apologies effective
by discharging the officer who slapped my
11-year-old grandson in the face last week."
"I cannot accept apologies from a
government that has systematically violated
our political and civil rights for 44 years.
The real apologies should be extended to
the 75 prisoners of conscience who were
jailed last March, and to their relatives,"
Sánchez said.
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