Cuban independent journalist Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez, who was arrested a week ago today and released on March 4, detailed his arrest and detention in an e-mail to supporters.
Committee to Protect Journalists reports:
Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez, a Havana-based independent journalist, sent an e-mail message this morning to his "brothers, colleagues, and organizations that protect and watch over press freedom around the world" announcing that he had been released from police custody after a four-day detention. In his e-mail, titled "Thanks to you and to your demands, I am at it again," Guerra Pérez detailed the ordeals of his arrest.
The journalist said he was taken into custody during a "massive police operation" on the afternoon of March 4, as neighbors stood by watching. Two agents of Cuba's secret police drove him to a local police station, where he was placed in a cell with 15 other men.
Soon after his arrival, Guerra Pérez was transferred to a second police station in Havana. There, State Security agents informed him that he would be questioned in his capacity as an independent journalist on the appearance around the Old Havana neighborhood of posters that said "Down with Fidel."
Agents interrogated Guerra Pérez eight times over the course of four days, he said, with each interrogation lasting between one and a half and three hours. Interrogators asked Guerra Pérez again and again to name the people responsible for the posters. "I told them that I did receive a lot of information about the posters which had been hung up [...] but that because of my ethics I could not tell them who the guilty person or who my sources were, even if I did know," Guerra Pérez wrote.
Read the rest here.
UPDATED, March 9, 2009
Miscelaneas de Cuba has details about the arrests of two other dissidents on suspicion that they were responsible for the anti-government signs.
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