CUBA NEWS
October 10, 2005

FROM CUBA Human rights advocate released from prison 346j2r

PALMA SORIANO, Cuba, October 4 (Virgilio Delat La O, APLO / cubanet.sergipeconectado.com) - A human rights advocate who preferred a prison sentence to forced work on a farm was released last week alftr serving a 10-month sentence.

Edgar Fur Almarales, 32, was arrested November 20, 2004 by officers of the National Revolutionary Police who surrounded his house at 5 .a.m.

Days earlier State security agent Luis Noel Plutin had warned Fur Almarales that he could be arrested because of his opposition to the government.

When he appeared before judge Tenia Bicer Guevara, she told him: "You'll work in agriculture or you'll go to jail." He said he preferred jail.

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