Former prisoner arrested again

Lázaro Alonso

Lázaro Joaquín Alonso Román was released from prison April 24, after completing a two-year sentence for protesting against the dictatorship.

Less than a month later, he is back in jail, with no word on exactly why, according to a story by journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira, posted at Misceláneas de Cuba.

Alonso's wife, Juana Delma Ruiz, told Serpa that her husband was arrested after police came to their home and demanded to see his identity card, which Alonso protested.

"He was brutally handcuffed and put him in a police car, which took him to the Dragones police station, between Moserrate and Zulueta (in Havana), where he remains a prisoner and where I was told he was charged with resistance to police," Ruiz said.

After Alonso and several other prisoners were released last month, dissident leaders on the island cautioned against getting to excited. All the regime was doing was releasing prisoners who had completed their sentences. Nothing more should be read into the government's move.

With Alonso's arrest Saturday, they were proven right.