Carlos Serpa Maceira, one of the most prolific Cuban independent journalists, was arrested and briefly detained last week, according to a dispatch posted at Misceláneas de Cuba.
Officers about 5 p.m. on Sept. 26 handcuffed Serpa and drove him to a Havana police station as he was trying to re-charge his telephone calling cards. The police told Serpa he had violated an unspecified rule.
At the police station, Serpa was interviewed by a State Security official named Tamayo.
"The political police threatened to return me to prison, to deport me," said a nonplussed Serpa, a native of the Isle of Youth Pines. "I am committed to my activism and my work on the streets, and my record of work is a preoccupation for them."
Serpa, who works as a correspondent for Misceláneas de Cuba, has been arrested and detained numerous times, and has been the target of various threats by agents of the Castro dictatorship.
By all indications, Serpa today is out of harm's way, as my e-mail inbox included his latest dispatches, complete with photographs, detailing police actions against other Cuban dissidents. You can read them here and here.
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