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In Preparatory Phase New Trial of Cuban Prisoner of Conscience Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina
By Cuban Democratic Directorate

GUANTÁNAMO, Cuba, December 6, 2004. The Cuban Democratic Directorate has received a report from Rolando Rodriguez Lobaina, brother of the imprisoned Cuban prisoner of conscience Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, which communicates the intentions of the regime to subject the prisoner to a new trial. The note stated the following:

 

"This past Monday November 29, while saying goodbye to a relative who was visiting him in the Forced Labor Camp 'La Bamba,' located on the highway of Guantánamo, the Sector Chief of the area, whose identity remains unknown until now, confronted prisoner of conscience Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina.  While exchanging words, the repressive agent took hold of him by the back and pushed him, falling to the floor.  At that moment, two agents appeared, while one held him down, the others brutally beat him, specifically agent Norge Castillo, until causing Nestor to lose control of his bowels, in addition to causing scratches on his neck and elsewhere.  Then Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina was transferred to the Department of Operations located in the highway of El Salvador, about two kilometers from the city of Guantánamo, after having been in the jails of the Unit of Police of Palenque, Municipality of Yateras, that is in the proximity of the the Forced Labor Camp 'La Bamba,'  ". 

 

After the beating, a process of instruction of charges has begun against Nestor for the supposed crimes of "Disobedience, Resistance and Disrespect.”

 

President of the Young Cubans for Democracy Movement, Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina is serving a sanction of 6 years of deprivation of freedom that began in March 2000 for the supposed crime of "Disrespect to the Figure of Commander Fidel Castro".  Since January 2004,  he is also serving 6 additional months for the supposed crime of "Damages". 

 

Reported from Guantánamo Rolando Rodriguez Lobaina, brother of political prisoner Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina and director of the Alternative Training Center of the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement.

 

Received via telephone by the Cuban Democratic Directorate on December 2, 2004. 

 

For additional information please contact Janisset Rivero at 305-279-4416.

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