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FROM
CUBA
Hunger
strikers in Cuba scattered to separate prisons
HAVANA, September 4 (www.cubanet.org) Five political
prisoners who declared a hunger strike August
31 were separated and reassigned to different
prisons from the Boniato prison in Santiago de
Cuba.
Independent journalist Normando Hernández
was transferred to the Kilometer 5½ prison
in Pinar del Río, at the other end of the
island and even further from his home in Camagüey.
Independent journalist Manuel Vázquez
Portal was transferred to Aguadores prison, in
Santiago de Cuba province. Government opponents
Nelson Aguiar and Juan Carlos Herrera were moved
to prisons in Guantánamo and Camagüey,
respectively. The whereabouts of the last of the
five, Próspero Gaínza, are still
unknown.
Hernánez' wife, Yaraí Reyes, said
she had managed to telephone the Kilometer 51/2
prison, and the duty officer had confirmed that
Hernández was confined to an isolation
cell there, without access to a telephone or eligible
for visits until he desists from the strike.
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