CUBA NEWS
August 11, 2004

FROM CUBA
Wife of Margarito Broche visits prisoner

HAVANA, Cuba, August 9 (Reinaldo Cosano Alén / www.cubanet.org) - During a visit on the morning of August 6th, the doctor who attends the prisoner of conscience Margarito Broche Espinosa, who recently suffered a heart attack, informed his wife, María de la Caridad Noa González, that her husband's blood pressure was stabilized and if it continued to remain stable, Margarito would be transferred to the intermediate care (therapy) unit.

María was able to see her husband through a window of the room where they (hospital officials) keep him. She said he was conscious, hungry, and that they gave him some fruit juice to ingest.

Margarito Broche Espinosa, 46, from Camajuaní, Villa Clara province, was tried and sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment under Cause No. 1 of 2003, on April 7, 2003.

Versión original en español

Translation:
Tanya S. Wilder, Human Rights Committee
Coalition of Cuban-American Women
tswilder@charter.net

 

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