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FROM
CUBA
Cuban
independent journalist sentenced
HAVANA, September 5 (www.cubanet.org) - Independent
journalist José Manuel Caraballo was sentenced
to three years of "correctional labor,"
a Cuban sanction similar to serving time in a
half-way house in the U. S. criminal system.
Caraballo was sentenced by the Ciego de Ávila
provincial tribunal for supposedly falsifying
school records.
Along with Caraballo, three others were sentenced,
Jorge Carvajal and Arley Concepción, to
six months in jail, and Julio de Posada, to a
500-peso fine.
Many here find it significant that Caraballo
was the only one who received the full sentence
the prosecution asked for; the others were all
given reduced sentences.
Caraballo himself said: "It is clear their
intentions (referring to the political police)
are to keep me under control, from home to work
to home, and unable to leave the province."
Caraballo vowed to keep practicing journalism
independent of government control.
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