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FROM CUBA
Prisoner of conscience
Librado Linares Garcia refused to travel to Spain to never return to
Cuba.
 SANTA
CLARA, CUBA - March 12 (Guillermo Fariñas Hernández, Cubanacán Press / Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
– Three weeks ago, the Cuban prisoner of conscience Librado Linares
Garcia refused a government offer at the Ariza prison which consisted of
giving him his freedom with the condition that he be sent to Spain to
never return to Cuba.
In a telephone conversation with this reporter, Linares Garcia who is
the General Secretary (in prison) of the Cuban Reflection Movement said:
"Ever since I was imprisoned at Combinado del Este in Havana, the
Political Police has been offering my freedom with the condition that I
leave Cuba to never return. I have not accepted the offer because it
means to be exiled from my country.
Librado continued saying:” I don’t criticize nor condemn our brothers in
the opposition who choose to go into exile because it is their right as
stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . In addition, those
who were allowed to travel to Spain are very ill, but even if I die
behind bars, I will never leave my homeland.
Librado Linares Garcia, General Secretary of the Cuban Reflection
Movement was sentenced to a 20 year sentence during the Black Spring of
2003.
Linares lost the vision on his left eye and is gradually loosing sight
in his right eye. In addition, after being submitted to a surgical
procedure, he is suffering from severe gastric problems.
Reporting from Santa Clara to the Information Bridge Cuba Miami Gillermo
Farinas Hernandez, director of Cubanacan Press. Translation: Puente
Informativo Cuba Miami.
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