Justice delayed and journalists threatened and arrested.
Just another week in post-Fidel Cuba:
— Human rights activist Juan Antonio Bermúdez Toranzo, who has been jailed since Nov. 21, was finally suppose to get his day in court Thursday. But his trial on charges that he "attacked" the wife of a local police chief was postponed until March 4, because no witnesses were available to testfiy against him.
— Independent journalist Filiberto Pérez Del Sol was arrested and detained for about 4 hours Monday, in an apparent try to block him from reporting the news about the eviction of residents from a shanty town in Santa Clara. Before releasing him, police confiscated as "evidence" several items he needs to do his job — a digital camera, a camera bag, six batteries, a charger, USB and audio-visual cables and a notebook. (Nonplussed by what happened, Pérez Del Sol three days later filed a report about the evictions.)
— A Castroite thug named Luis Alberto Peña Buyaín apparently has gone unpunished for making death threats against independent journalist Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez and his sister, Sandra Guerra Pérez.
Sign petition for release of Cuban political prisoners
