Just a few notes from the dungeon that is Cuba today:
— Christian pastor Mauri Cerulia Rojas, a frequent target of the Cuban secret police, will stand trial Feb. 4, on charges of stealing 140 peos during an armed robbery of a pharmacy. Details of his supposed "crime" were not known, but independent journalist Tania Maceda Guerra reports that Cerulia, a member of the Council of Human Rights Investigators, believes he is being singled out because of his faith and his opposition to the regime.
Cerulia said he has been physically assaulted, and at one point, police introduced a biological or chemical agent into his house, in order to sicken him.
— Cuban political prisoner Arturo Suárez Ramos, who recently was diagnosed with apparent cancer, denounced the poor medical care available to those locked in "Cuban dungeons," according to a report at Payo Libre.
— Nine dissidents were detained in eastern Cuba in recent days, according to independent journalist Tania Maceda Guerra, reporting for Payo Libre. Among them, were five — Ersilia Correoso Pérez, of the Council of Human Rights Investigators, and Christian Liberation Movement activists Ezequiel Morales Carmenate, Francisco Morales Carmenate, Alexis Guerrero Cruz and Alberto Hernández Ávila — who were taken to a police station in Puerto Padre, in Las Tunas province, where they were photographed and fingerprinted. And for good measure, the police took their CAMBIO bracelets.
Other dissidents arrested were independent journalists Luis Felipe Rojas Rosabal and Yosvani Anzardo Hernández; and Maura Iset González Jurquet, president of the Latin American Federation of Rural Women, and her husband Waldimar Parra Santana.
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