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CUBA
Dissident beaten and fined by police
MANICARAGUA, Cuba, October 26 (Jesús
Hernández Medina, Cubanacán
Press / www.cubanet.org) - Police stopped
dissident Leonardo Dévora at a check
point in Manicaragua, beat him and later
fined him 200 pesos.
Dévora said he was traveling with
two companions on a tractor when police
stopped them. After they searched them and
the vehicle, police found a small quantity
of coffee, which police tried to get Dévora
to admit was his, in spite that one of his
companions had acknowledged it belonged
to him.
After exchanging some words with police
and getting roughed up for his troubles,
Dévora says he was fined 200 pesos
at the police station.
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