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CUBA
Cuba ends protest in Revolution Square
HAVANA, Cuba, October 7 (Robert Santana
Rodriguez/www.cubanet.org) - Around 3 am
a squad of Cuban security agents ended a
rare protest staged by wives of political
prisoners near the grounds of the Havana's
Revolution Square.
At first three agents visited the women,
who were stationed in the park adjacent
to the Square since Tuesday morning, asking
for Angel Moya to be temporarily moved from
his prison cell in the eastern province
of Granma to a jail closer to home so he
could be treated from his ailments (*).
"They told her (Berta Soler, Moya's
wife) that her request was being expedited
and that she should wait at home, and that
they would not accept any pressure",
explained our source, Adolfo Peraza Rico,
member of a dissident human rights party.
"She refused to leave, saying she will
wait right there for her husband".
In response to this an operative with about
60 agents, men and women, came in Ladas
and buses to evict the nine dissidents.
According to Gisela Delgado, wife of Hector
Palacios, a dissident serving a 25-year
prison, the agents took the women home in
the cars, and the men were taken to the
Ministry of Comunications, next to the park,
and were given written warnings and threats.
The nine protesters were: Berta Moya, Lídice
Moya (Angel Moya's sister), Gisela Delgado,
(wife of Hector Palacios), Alejandrina García
(journalist), Margarita Borges (wife of
the political prisoner Edel García),
Carlos Menéndez (from the Cuban Commission
of Human rights and National Reconciliation),
Jesús Gómez (Cuban Liberal
Movement in Havana Province) and Julio Alberto
Rosa, from the Orthodox Party.
Angel Moya was sentenced to 20 years in
prison last year during a crackdown on dissent
that led to the jailing of 75 opponents.
Moya is suffering severe back pain from
a herniated disc and needs an operation.
* (Note Ed.) Later in
the day authorities notified Berta Soler
that her husband has been moved to a Havana
hospital and that she was being permitted
to visit him for an hour.
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