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NEWS
Luis Campos
Corrales handcuffed and Thrown from the Second Floor of El Combinado del
Este.
(HAVANA/CUBA/November
2/Puenteinfocubamiami.org) -
In evening hours of October 20, Luis Campos Corrales, political prisoner
and member of the Democratic Party November 30 "Frank País", who is
almost blind due to a bacterial infection was handcuffed and then thrown
from the second floor of the prison Combinado del Este in Havana, by the
officer in charge of the detachment that goes by the name of Leonel with
the aid of another prison official.
Campos Corrales was able to denounce the event to his mother Gregoria
Corrales over the telephone, this Saturday, November 1, when he was
granted permission to call to inquire about her health for she had eye
surgery last Monday. He also told his mother that he was presently
sleeping in the floor under some stair in an unknown detachment at El
Combinado del Este.
In the evening hours of November 2, Mrs. Corrales placed a telephone
call to Ada Kaly Márquez, National Coordinator of the November 30 Party
to let her know of her intentions going to the prison at the risk of
loosing her sight and not leaving the premises until she saw her son.
Mrs. Corrales was persuaded from going while she recuperates and members
of the November 30 would try and get clarification as to the present
state of the health of Campos Corrales.
According to information received by correspondents of Lux Info Press in
Havana, after this incident with Campos Corrales, officials at Combinado
del Este also dragged throughthe floor of the prison the political
prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo of the Alternative Republican Movement in
Havana and member of the Civic Movement Committee of the Varela Project,
who was unjustly sentenced to 18 years in prison in the recent wave of
repression that began last March. They left Tamayo[s back full of
lacerations only for requesting medical attention.
Luis Campos Corrales is serving a 25 year sentence in the Cause #37 of
1994 for the supposed crime of piracy.
Reported the correspondents of Lux Info Press in Havana, Gilberto
Figueredo Alvarez and Ada Kaly Márquez, also, National Coordinator of
the Democratic Party November 30 " Frank País ". For the Information
Bridge Cuba Miami, given on November 2, 2003.
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