Scritto da: fcf@fiu.edu Free Cuba Foundation

Data: 24-Mag-97 Ora: 23:06

Dear Concerned Activists,

Armando Alonso Romero still needs your help and

so do thousands more suffering in Cuban prisons. Here are two cases that

require our immediate action. Contact us if you are interested in taking

part in these 2 campaigns.

John Suarez

International Committee to Defend Life and Liberty

http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/armando.alonso/armando.campaign.html

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The Case of Eduardo Gomez Sanchez

From: MGomez9816@aol.com

Subject: Prisionero politico (Political Prisoner)

Please, you can help my brother Eduardo Gomez Sanchez, prisoner in KILO 8,

Camaguey and condemned to 20 years for the crime of illegal exit and

piracy. He is gravely ill with a malignant tumor in the liver but he is

maintained in a punishment cell without medical assistance as punishment

for an earlier hunger strike he had engaged in. I have all the

information concerning him and only bringing attention to his case in the

international community is there any possibility of saving his life.

Please HELP US SAVE A LIFE!

Por favor, ustedes pueden ayudar a mi hermano Eduardo Gomez Sanchez,

prisionero en la carcel de KILO 8, Camaguey y condenado a 20 anos por

delito de pirateria y salida ilegal. Actualmente esta gravemente enfermo

con un tumor canceroso en el higado pero le mantienen en una celda de

castigo, tapiada y sin asistencia medica como represalia por una huelga de

hambre. Yo tengo todos los datos acerca de el y solo dando a conocer su

caso en la comunidad internacional hay alguna posibilidad de salvarle la

vida. Por favor AYUDENLO A SALVAR SU VIDA!

Secondary Confirmation from CCPDH

Subject: RE: POLITICAL PRISONER GOMES SANCHEZ

Greetings!:

Yes, Mr. Gomes Sanchez is on my list. He was arrested sometime in 1994,

and sentenced to 20 years in jail for the crimes of illegal exit and

piracy(that means he attempted to highjack or steal a boat to come to the U.S.)

He is in Kilo 8 Prison, Camag ey Province, and apparently suffers from a

liver condition, probably cancer. That is all I have.

Sebastian Arcos Cazabon

Cuban Committee for Human Rights

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Leader Of Young People for Democracy Is Detained in Palma Soriano

CALL GOES OUT FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH YOUNG CUBAN DEMOCRAT

HAVANA, May 1, 1997.

By Monike de Motas, special for CubaNet

Graciela de la Vega, the mother of Radames Garcia de la Vega,

vice-president of the Cuban movement Jovenes por la Democracia

(Young People for Democracy), is urgently requesting international

solidarity to demand the freedom for her son, who is being held

in Palma Soriano, and is being threatened with a trial for the alleged

contempt to the person of the Commandant in Chief.

Radames Garcia de la Vega had been summoned by officer Ceden~o last April

29, and at this interview he order him to make himself

available for a meeting with State Security officers in the locality of

Versalles, Santiago de Cuba.

On April 30, he received a second summons to present himself, along with

his identity papers, to the State Security offices at 3

o'clock. Since this office closes at 2, upon his arrival, he was not able

to enter and returned along with his mother.

As they got out of a store, a political police officer, on a motorcycle,

intercepted them on the street, and charged Radames without

listening to his explanation. On May 1st, Graciela went to the State

Security officers and they informed the desperate woman that her

son had been taken to the offices of the National Revolutionary Police.

They told her at the police unit that her son Radames was being held

incomunicado and that they would not deliver any family care

package to him because he was going to be tried for contempt to the person

of the Commandant in Chief. (Fidel)

The political police has already taken off the streets the president of

the Jovenes por la Democracia, Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, and

now intends to do the same with the vice-president. It seems that the

government doesn't forgive the project University Students

Without Frontiers.

Translated for CubaNet by Lourdes Arriete

More information is provided in this story from an independent press

agency in Cuba.

BPIC - MAY 8,1997

A Youth Director of the Cuban Opposition is Detained

Palma Soriano, May 5,1997,BPIC; Last April 30th,Radames Garcia de la Vega,

Vice President of the Cuban opposition movement,

Jovenes por la Democracia,was detained in the city of Palma Soriano. He

was also the co-sponsor of an autonomous university

project.

This occurrence was related, via telephone by Mrs.Graciela de la Vega,

mother of the detained youth. She said that her son was

practically kidnapped on a public street by an agent of the political

police who drove a motorcycle with a side car. This occurred

when both mother and son were returning to their home after having

responded to an order from the Departamento del Seguridad del

Estado to appear at the public registry office of said local.

After not knowing his whereabouts for 24 hours, an agent of State Security

told Mrs.de la Vega that her son was arrested in the

police station of Palma Soriano. He was accused of disrespect of President

Castro, for which presumably he will be subject to a

court trial.

The mother of the young opponent added that on June 6th, he will fulfill

one year of house arrest imposed in an arbitrary fashion

due to his anti-government political activities. She also called for

international solidarity from universities and international

organizations for the defense of human rights so that they will intercede

in his case.

Last April 10th, the President of Jovenes por la Democracia, Nestor

Rodriguez Lovaina, was condemned to 18 months of loss of

freedom for supposed crimes of resisting arrest, and disrespect. An other

director of this movement,Heriberto Layva Rodriguez, has

stated that the State Security threatened him with jail before the

celebration this summer of the 14th World Festival of Youth and

Students. REPORT: Mercedes Moreno