Hey MSM! Wake the hell up!

Journalists and dissidents in Cuba are being harrassed constantly. Where are the US and World meida and why are they so damned quiet on the subject?

Via Cubanet:

Wife of imprisoned dissident released from jail

HAVANA, March 28 (Leonel Alberto Pérez Belette / www.cubanet.org) - Independent journalist Lamaciel Gutiérrez Romero, who reports for Nueva Prensa Cubana, was given a conditional release from jail last week.

Gutiérrez Romero had been arrested October 11 and later sentenced to seven months in jail on charges of disobedience and resisting arrest.

Her husband, Rolando Jiménez Posadas, has been imprisoned for three years on charges of insult, enemy propaganda and revealing state secrets.

Police search home of opposition pacifist

PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, March 28 (Rafael Ferro Salas, Abdala Press / www.cubanet.org) - Two political police agents searched the home of Juan González Lugo, a member of the opposition People's Party.

"The policemen showed up at my house and without showing me any search warrants searched everywhere," he said. "They didn't find anything, but they insisted that they knew I had visited the home of the delegate of the People's Party and that I had propaganda in my possession."

González Lugo said the agents promised to return in the next few days to look for the propaganda.

Political police threaten journalist for Abdala Press

PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, March 28 (Rafael Ferro Salas, Abdala Press/ www.cubanet.org) - Two political police agents entered the home of Genaro Martínez, a reporter for Abdala Press, and threatened him last week, the journalist said.

"They told me the purpose of their visit was to talk to me about my activities as a reporter for a dissident news agency, Abdala Press," he said.

He said they took his identity card and issued a citation to appear the next day at the municipal police headquarters, where he was issued a warning.

He said the pair also searched his home and took a shortwave radio and a camera.

Dissident's telephone service cut

CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, March 28 (Abel Escobar Ramírez / www.cubanet.org) - Waldímar Parra Santana, president of the Independent Farmworkers League, says he has been without telephone service since February 9.

He said service was cut after the municipal president of the block committees visited his mother and played for her the tape of a news story he had filed to Radio Martí. He said the official accused him of using his telephone for "counterrevolutionary" activities.

Parra Santana said he has been many times to the Empresa de Tele Comunicaciones de Cuba (ETECSA) but is always told that nothing can be done to reestablish his telephone service.

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