FROM
CUBA
Political prisoner gets expired medicines
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - April 25 (Guillermo
Fariñas, Cubanacán Press /
www.cubanet.org) - Prison authorities gave
political prisoner Miguel Díaz several
packages containing expired date medicines
at La Pendiente prison on April 21.
Díaz said State Security delayed
the shipment until the medicines lost effectiveness.
"I think the agents let my medicines
spoil on purpose, to blackmail and demean
me," said Díaz in a telephone
interview with Cubanacán Press.
The medicines had been sent by Cuban exiles
in Miami.
Díaz, a 62-year-old Cuban-American,
was apprehended in 1994 after he landed
in the north coast of Villa Clara province
with a commando force. He was sentenced
to 25 years in prison.
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