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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