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Young independent journalist detained
By Juan Carlos González Leiva

Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia

Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia

 

Combined forces of the National Police and State Security arrested Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia in a police operation of gratuitous scope on December 4th at the home of the 21 year-old independent journalist from the Youth Without Censure press agency.

 

The military and police forces meticulously ransacked his house, confiscating his laptop computer, fax machine, and other materials used in his work as a journalist. The search lasted about two hours, during which nobody was allowed to enter or leave the house. His 13 year-old sister, Laid Rodríguez Albacia, was removed from the house to the local Committee for the Defense of the Revolution. His mother had to receive medical attention as a rise in blood pressure aggrieved her delicate heart condition.

 

The officers informed Margarita Albacia, Ahmed’s mother, that he would be taken to Cien y Aldabó, a known Castro regime detention and torture center, and that she would be able to see him for a few minutes within a week.

 

Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia had been previously harassed and scrutinized by the National Police, State Security and Rapid Response Brigades for several days before this incident. Last week, a government organized mob flung rocks at Albacia’s home during the day and set his roof on fire. Anyone who entered or exited the home was arrested.

 

 

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Juan Carlos González Leiva Juan Carlos González Leiva
Abogado invidente, que reside en Ciego de Avila, Cuba. Preside la Fundación Cubana de Derechos Humanos en dicha ciudad, organización que defiende los derechos humanos y que es perseguida por el régimen de Castro. A pesar de ser ciego, cumplió prisión desde el 2 de marzo del 2001 hasta el 26 de abril de 2004, fecha en la que le celebraron el juicio junto a otros nueve activistas de su misma causa, por sus ideas civilistas.

 

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