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Cuban police call Sat TV antenna "subversive,"
confiscate it
HAVANA, February 16 (www.cubanet.org)
- After a two-hour home search, police confiscated
a satellite TV antenna, a VCR and some tapes,
labeling them
"subversive," and fined their
owner 500 pesos.
Four officers under the leadership of sector
chief Rey Rodríguez and officer Alberto
Falcón, searched the home of René
Barceló in the Madruga municipality
of Havana February 13.
Barceló said he bought the antenna
from a merchant marine crewman for 800 dollars
about a year ago. He said he had all the
receipts for the antenna and for the VCR,
demonstrating they were legally acquired.
The next day, Barceló said he was
taken to the police station, where officials
had a different perspective on the matter.
"You have to be authorized to be able
to own that type of equipment," he
said the officer told him, adding that whoever
had led him to believe that merely showing
the equipment had been legally acquired
made it legal "had lied to him."
Barceló said police asked him a
number of questions about what channels
he watched and why and for what purposes
did he record the programs. Finally, Barceló
said, they fined him 1,000 pesos.
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