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Cuban independent journalist
and her husband brutally beaten and detained 4v2746
Information
Bridge Cuba Miami.
(HAVANA, Cuba, November 15 - Puenteinofcubamiami.org)
- The Independent Journalist Mara
Josefa (Marilin) Daz Fernndez
and her husband Lzaro Gonzlez
vila, a member of the Christian
Liberation Movement in Camaguey, were brutally
beaten, then arrested by forces of the political
police in Sancti Spritus for simply
telling a traveler at the bus terminal not
allow the National Revolutionary Police
to confiscate without a search warrant,
the bag of potatoes she was carrying, for
vendors were allowed to sell potatoes freely
along the province and she had the right
to carry them. Immediately thereafter, an
official turned to them telling them to
shut up and then proceeded to brutally attack
them.
In the middle of the night of today, Friday
the 14th, Mara Josefa Daz
(Marilin) Fernndez, denounced to
correspondents of Lux Info Press from a
public telephone at the Police Station in
Sancti Spiritu, the atrocities that the
political police committed against her and
her husband at the Bus Terminal of the above
mention province.
Lzaro and Marilin were brutally
beaten by several police officers,therefore
interrupting their trip back home to which
they opposed, arguing that they had committed
no crime, that they were returning home
from an illness trip. Marilin had just been
released from the Hospital La Dependiente
in Havana, where she received critical intensive
treatment for Lectopirosis, as stated in
the medical papers in her possession which
were issued at the medical facility to guarantee
a priority bus ticket to Camaguey, for her
condition required a quick trip home for
total bed rest in order to finish recuperating
from her illness.
"I have black and blues all over
my arms from the intravenous medications
given to me at the hospital, notwithstanding,
they proceeded to beat me and slap me in
the face, one of the officials held both
of his hands against my mouth so that no
one would hear me scream, there was an incalculable
number of officers beating my husband at
the same time, then they dragged him to
a cellI kept calling his name, but
he did not answer. He probably fainted from
all the blows he received, he just won't
answer me. I managed to call you from a
public phone in the lobby of the police
station, for I looked so bad after they
finished abusing me, that they called a
doctor, I don't know how long I will go
unnoticed. I feel so weak I cannot even
lift my arms. They are checking our luggage
at the present time, I don't know how this
is going to end. Please, it is necessary
that you denounce to world what is happening
to us because our relatives don't know were
we are and you know perfectly well that
they do not notify relatives of these matters".
"In her luggage, Maria Josefa had
books for the independent library she runs
in Camaguey and copies of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights to distribute
in her province. Also, due to her grave
illness, her husband, who is an active member
of the Christian Liberation Movement and
is actively working with the Varela Project,
traveled to the capital at the urging of
hospital officials, leaving their small
son at the care of neighbors in their hometown",
finished saying Ada Kaly Mrquez,
correspondent for Lux Info Press in Havana.
Reported the correspondents
of LUX INFO-PRESS in Havana, Gilberto Figueredo
and Ada Mrquez, also, National Coordinator
of the Democratic Party November 30 "Frank
Pas". For the Information Bridge
Cuba Miami, given on November 15, 2003.
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