Physician set free to await trial
HAVANA, Cuba - August 3 (Roberto Santana Rodríguez / www.cubanet.org) -
Dr. Tomás Fuentes, who had been arrested July 16 after a confrontation
with two policemen, was set free August 2 and is awaiting trial on
charges of disrespect to the national police and to the image of Fidel
Castro. The charges could result in a prison sentence of up to four years.
Fuentes, 37, a graduate in general medicine who has belonged to
dissident organizations for some time, said he was released moments
before being transferred to a holding prison in Melena del Sur, Havana
province, on account of a bout of dengue fever which he said he was
infected with after his incarceration.
Fuentes said he was arrested as he returned from the beach in a truck
carrying passengers and became embroiled in an altercation with two
out-of-uniform policemen who were roughing up a young man. The
policemen, he said, diverted the truck to Guanajay, and left him
detained at the police station there.
"They beat me up, gave me two black eyes, a dislocated shoulder, and a
big hematoma on the right leg," said Fuentes.
Fuentes said he already served a sentence between 1998 and 2001.
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