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FROM
CUBA
President of association for the deaf arrested
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, April 14 (Luis Esteban
Espinosa, Jóvenes sin Censura / www.cubanet.org)
- Yoandy Quintana Sarría, president
of the Independent Association of the Deaf,
says he was forcefully arrested by the police
last week.
Quintana Sarría, 22, who is deaf
himself, said he was fined 500 pesos - the
equivalent of a little more than the monthly
average salary in Cuba - and threatened
with four years imprisonment. He did not
say under which charges he was fined or
threatened. .
The arrest occurred April 6 and was carried
by officers of the National Revolutionary
Police who were in a police cruiser.
Quintana Sarría said they also confiscated
two bicycle tires he owned.
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