Injusticias?

Injustices?

HAVANA, Cuba -June 21 (Richard Roselló / www.cubanet.org) - A woman who drives a pedicab in Havana complains that police have subjected her to repeated harassment.

"Mistreatments and humiliation," is how Rosario Navalón, 47, describes how police treat her since two officers, a captain Nilvi and a second lieutenant Osmani Rodríguez, physically and verbally assaulted her at a police station in January.

Navalón said she subsequently accused the two officers before the municipal military prosecutor's office.

After lodging her charges, Navalón said a police sector chief, lieutenant Héctor Blanco, showed up at her home with a complaint that she was playing her radio too loudly. Navalón said Blanco told her "It is forbidden to play music in her house without previously advising her local police station, by orders of Fidel Castro and of the Minister of the Interior, Abelardo Colomé."

Several times, she said, she has been called into police station at Dragones and Zulueta, where a lieutenant coronel Salvá and a captain Ofelia have pressured her to drop the accusation against the two officers.

Also, she said, second lieutenant Rodríguez has threatened her in the street, saying that "if anything happens to him, she will have to face the consequences."

In April, she said, two officers of the Specialized Brigade imposed two fines that were dropped for lack of evidence after she patiently complained.

Navalón said she "is a Revolutionary" who will not yield before injustice.

Navalón has been yielding to injustices her whole life.

Posted by Val Prieto at June 23, 2005 06:30 AM

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Posted by: Alberto Quiroga at June 23, 2005 07:13 AM