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FROM
CUBA
Woman pedicab driver complains of harassment
HAVANA, Cuba -June 21 (Richard Roselló
/ www.cubanet.org) - A woman who
drives a pedicab in Havana complains that
police have subjected her to repeated harassment.
"Mistreatments and humiliation,"
is how Rosario Navalón, 47, describes
how police treat her since two officers,
a captain Nilvi and a second lieutenant
Osmani Rodríguez, physically and
verbally assaulted her at a police station
in January.
Navalón said she subsequently accused
the two officers before the municipal military
prosecutor's office.
After lodging her charges, Navalón
said a police sector chief, lieutenant Héctor
Blanco, showed up at her home with a complaint
that she was playing her radio too loudly.
Navalón said Blanco told her "It
is forbidden to play music in her house
without previously advising her local police
station, by orders of Fidel Castro and of
the Minister of the Interior, Abelardo Colomé."
Several times, she said, she has been called
into police station at Dragones and Zulueta,
where a lieutenant coronel Salvá
and a captain Ofelia have pressured her
to drop the accusation against the two officers.
Also, she said, second lieutenant Rodríguez
has threatened her in the street, saying
that "if anything happens to him, she
will have to face the consequences."
In April, she said, two officers of the
Specialized Brigade imposed two fines that
were dropped for lack of evidence after
she patiently complained.
Navalón said she "is a Revolutionary"
who will not yield before injustice.
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