Wife and sister of imprisoned journalist strip searched

Wife and sister of imprisoned journalist strip searched

CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, April 11 (Roberto Pérez, Agencia Patria /
www.cubanet.org) Lidia Lores and her sister-in-law, Clara Lourdes Prieto
Llorente, say they were forced to completely disrobe and undergo a body
search before being permitted to visit Lores' imprisoned husband,
independent journalist Fabio Prieto Llorente.

The incident occurred March 29 at the Guayabo Prison on the Isle of
Pines, where Prieto Llorente is serving a 20-year sentence, meted out in
2003.

Prieto Llorente's wife called the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights to
report that she and her husband's sister had been subjected to body
searches.

"I'm prepared to support this humiliation and many others that they're
capable of practicing in an attempt to prevent me from seeing my
brother," Clara Lourdes Prieto Llorente said.

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