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FROM
CUBA
Prison officials try to forcibly reeducate
independent journalist
CIEGO DE ÁVILA, Cuba, April 4 (Luis
Esteban Espinosa, Agencia Jóvenes
sin Censura / www.cubanet.org) - Imprisoned
independent journalist Normando
Hernández González says
he was thrown down a flight of stairs by
the "reeducator" of the Kilo 5
prison where he's serving a 25-year sentence.
Hernández González told the
Cuban Foundation of Human Rights in a telephone
call that Reinier Armenteros Pulgarón
twisted his arm, threw him down the stairs
and dragged him to a solitary confinement
cell when he refused to accept reeducating.
He said he shouted "Down with the tyranny
of Fidel Castro" and "Long live
human rights" as he was being dragged.
The prisoner's wife, Yaraí Reyes
Marín, said the incident occurred
March 28 and that her husband was held in
solitary confinement for seven hours.
Normando Hernández was arrested
as part of a crackdown on 18 March 2003
and was sentenced to 25 years in prison
for "endangering the state's independence
or territorial integrity" under article
91 of the criminal code.
Versión
original en español
Related:
Normando
Hernández González / PEN
Normando
Hernández González / Reporters without borders
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