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CUBA
NEWS
Information Bridge Cuba Miami
Political prisoner harassed in Guantánamo
(HAVANA, Cuba, 22 / Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
- According to information provided over
the telephone by the provincial Delegate
of the Democratic Party November 30 "Frank
País" in Guantánamo,
to the National Coordinator in functions
of this organization in Havana, that Paver
Morienar Vargas Deville, a member and activist
of the Democratic Party November 30 "Frank
País", is being harassed by
members of the State Security of the above
mentioned province.
The activist informed LUX-INFO-PRESS Paver
Morienar Vargas Deville was serving a sentence
of six years in prison at the provincial
prison Combinado de Guantánamo, for
a supposed crime of "intent of illegal
exit of national territory" through
the Guantánamo Naval Base, for which
he had to serve half of his sentence before
being legible for parole.
On January 22, Vargas Deville was threatened
by Captain Benitez and Captain Silvestre,
both members of the State Security, whom
stated that in the event he was seen with
members of the above mentioned opposition
group his parole would be revoked and he
would sent back to prison to complete his
sentence.
According to José Alfonso Frometa,
delegate of the Democratic Party November
30 "Frank País" in Guantánamo,
after the interrogatory, all Vargas Deville
wanted was for the world to know his story
be told as more evidence of the violations
of freedom of speech and association by
the Cuban regime all over the Island.
Reporting Gilberto Figueredo
Álvarez, LUX-INFO-PRESS correspondent
in Havana. For the Information Bridge Cuba
Miami, given on February 20, 2004.
Relatives of political prisoners will
fast on anniversary of wave of repression
(HAVANA, Cuba, 22 / Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
- On the first anniversary of the regime's
last wave of repression against the Cuban
internal opposition in March and April of
2003, the School of Independent Educators
of Cuba announced a symbolic fast on the
18 and 19 of March in favor of the liberation
of the Cuban political prisoners and those
of conscience.
"We cannot allow this date to pass
without condemning these acts, because we
would be leaving our brothers in prison
without a voice ", said to Lux-Info-Press
Soledad Rivas Verdecía, wife of Roberto
de Miranda Hernandez, president of the School
of Independent Educators of Cuba and Director
of the Varela Project, unjustly serving
a sentence of 20 years in prison.
"On both days and from our organization's
headquarters located at Calle Campanario
354, Apt. 4 between San Miguel and San Rafael
in Centro Havana, we will demand that the
Cuban Régime liberates all political
prisoners, said Mrs. Rivas."
The School of Independent Educators of
Cuba was founded in 1995 and has more than
200 affiliates in the 14 counties of the
Island.
Reported Gilberto Figueredo
Álvarez, LUX-INFO-PRESS correspondent
in Havana. For the Information Bridge Cuba
Miami, given on February 19, 2003.
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