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FROM
CUBA
Dissident sentenced to year for failing
to pay fine
HAVANA, January 30 (Roberto Santana Rodríguez
/ www.cubanet.org) - Rolando Aguirre Patterson,
a member of the Cuban Liberal Movement,
has been sentenced to a year in jail for
failing to pay 10 fines for illegally operating
a pedicab.
Aguirre Patterson, 26, had been operating
a pedicab for four years, mainly in the
historic tourist area.
"I didn't have a lawyer to defend
me," Aguirre Patterson said. "There
were two judges and the prosecutor in the
courtroom. They only let my wife in."
Aguirre Patterson was accused of not possessing
a government license and fined 4,580 pesos,
the equivalent of two years' wages for an
average worker.
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