CUBA NEWS
October 8, 2004

CUBA NEWS
Information Bridge Cuba Miami

Montes de Oca ratifies his position from prison

(HAVANA, CUBA, October5 / Puenteinfocubamiami.org) - Last Tuesday, René Montes de Oca called me from the prison la Pendiente, where he is serving an unjust sentence of 8 month, pointed out to Acción Democrática Cubana, Moisés Leonardo Rodríguez, Promoter of the "Corriente Martiana".

"He told us that he demanded his rights to the official at the Court attending to his request, he ( Montes de Oca), explains that there could have been a small altercation and not the climate that official sources present. He denounces the presence of officers of the State Security in his case, which only points to the fact that again, there was manipulation of a legal process in Cuba, due to lack of separation of powers in every aspect of the social life in Cuba."

Montes de Oca pointed out that he is in a cell with a common prisoner whom so far has not given him any problems. That he received his personal hygiene needs sent to him through his wife and sister.

He maintains a very firm posture and ratifies that know one will be able to change his ideals and even from prison he continues denouncing all the Human Rights Violations and ratifying his position as National Leader of the Cuban Pro Human Rights Party affiliated to the Andréa Saguaro Foundation.

"He sounded as firm as ever and sent his greetings to the Exile community prior to ending our conversation"- finished saying Rodríguez.

This information was given to Net For Cuba International and to the Information Bridge Cuba Miami by Acción Democrática Cubana on the 6 day of October 2004.

Freedom for Independent Cuban Trade Unionists demanded in Cuba

(HABANA, Cuba, October 6 / Puenteinfocubamiami.org) - Members and collaborators of the Investigative Journalism Unit, Affiliated to LUX INFO PRESS, demanded in Havana the freedom of 7 Independent Cuban Trade Unionists sentenced by the Castro regime on April of 2003.

During an act celebrated in the home of Rolando S. Calvet, the reporters carried out a symbolic roll call in honor of the political prisoners and that of conscience Pedro Pablo Álvarez Ramos, Nelson Molinet Espino, Héctor Raúl Valle Hernández, Miguel Galván Gutiérrez, Iván Hernández Carrillo, Alfredo Felipe Fuentes and Carmelo Díaz Fernández, all Cuban Independent Trade Unionists arrested and sentenced during the months of March and April 2003, along with 68 dissidents and independent journalists with sentences ranging up to 28 years in jail.

"We demand of the government of Fidel Castro liberty without conditions to the 7 independent Cuban Trade Unionists, arrested and sentenced by the regime in Havana, for promoting Free Trade Union in Cuba in defense of the Cuban workers and for being against the postulates of the regime's Cuban Workers Union, under the control of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party"- states the text that was read by the members of the Independent Investigative Unit.

" Those of us present hereby ratify that from this day forward we will not rest until our brothers are set free, and we will continue to denounce the atrocities committed inside the prisons in the Island"- also read the document.

According to the source, participating in this event were Rolando S. Calvet, Maytee M. López, Héctor Alonso Santos, Mercedes Toledo Mesa, Roberto Santana Rodríguez and D.S.Burton.

Reporting from Havana for the Information Bridge Cuba Miami and Net For Cuba International Gilberto Figueredo Álvarez, LUX-INFO-PRESS correspondent and Ada Kaly Márquez Abascal, National Coordinator of the Democratic Party November 30 "Frank País", also, correspondent for the oriental zone of the Information Bridge Cuba Miami. Given on the 6 day of October 2004.

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