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Another independent journalist
arrested
Reporters
Without Borders,
August 11, 2005.
Reporters Without Borders condemned the
arrest of physician and independent journalist
Florencio Cruz Cruz today in Aguado, in
the central province of Cienfuegos. Cruz
is the deputy editor of the Línea
Sur Press independent agency. He also works
for Nueva Prensa Cubana.
Cruz was arrested by Lt. Carlos Castillo
Medina, a police officer identified as Junier,
and two other policemen as he was going
to the home of Bernardo Arévalo Padrón,
the editor of Línea Sur Press.
Arévalo said the pretext for the
arrest was a small sum of money in Cruz's
possession which he received from the US-based
organisation Agenda Cuba as a form of assistance
after the most recent hurricane to hit the
island. Cruz's wife, Yamile Sousa Elizondo,
told Reporters Without Borders she has not
yet seen him since his arrest.
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