Prison officials try to forcibly reeducate independent journalist

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.

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