A few recent headlines you might have missed about the reality of life in Cuba today:
- Human rights activist Jesús Cruz Santos was tried Sept. 26 on a charge of being a "pre-criminal social danger," after he was arrested four days earlier outside the Havana Libre Hotel in the capital. There was no information on what he was doing when he was arrested or the outcome of the trial.
- Political prisoner Luís Cueto Echevarría was beaten by guards for complaining about conditions at the Ariza prison in Cienfuegos.
- Political activist Iris Pérez Aguilera, the wife of the former political prisoner Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez", reiterated to a court in Placetas that she has no plans to pay a 500-peso fine levied after she was convicted last month of "resistance" and "contempt." The court gave her until Oct. 19 to change her mind; if she doesn't pay the fine, she could be sentenced to 8 months in jail.
- Police officers and other Castroite goons detained human rights activists Ricardo Rubén Barreto Fuentes and Francisco Sa Fuster, preventing them from attending a Mass celebrated each month to remember hostages being held by communist guerrillas in Colombia.
- Human rights activist Reynaldo Valle Cuello was threatened with death.
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