FROM
CUBA
Police stop dissident couple from celebrating
St. Valentine's Day
PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, February 14 (Rafael
Ferro Salas, Abdala Press / www.cubanet.org)
- Dissident Jesús Francisco Corrales
Serrat and his wife Iris Días Pérez
and were detained by the political police
en route to celebrate St. Valentine's Day.
"An officer named Beune told us that
on a day like St. Valentine's Day we dissidents
couldn't be on the streets because we're
always thinking of how to create problems,"
Días Pérez said. "My
husband replied that it was our intention
to celebrate in a restaurant."
Días Pérez said the officer
took their documents and told then they
could pick them up the next day at the police
station.
The couple returned home without celebrating.
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