Journalist threatened with arrest under Law 88

FROM CUBA
Journalist threatened with arrest under Law 88

HAVANA, March 31 (Richard Roselló / www.cubanet.org) - Ana Leonor Díaz
Chamizo, director of the Grupo de Trabajo Decoro independent news
agency, was picked up by police last weekend and threatened under Law
88, under which a person with consorting with the enemy.

The independent journalist was taken last Saturday by members of a
Search and Capture Brigade to police headquarters in the Havana
municipality of Cerro.

"They warned me not to continue writing," she said afterwards. She said
they told here that reprisals could be taken against her family.

Díaz Chamizo had worked for the official Prensa Latina news agency in
Washington and New York, but quit in 2000 to become an independent
journalist.

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