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Prisoner of conscience Librado Linares Garcia refused to travel to
Spain to never return to Cuba.
Prisoner of
conscience Librado Linares Garcia
http://www.puenteinfocubamiami.org/News/2008/March/005.htm
SANTA CLARA, CUBA - March 12 (Guillermo Fariñas Hernández, Cubanacán
Press / Puenteinfocubamiami.org) – Three weeks ago, the Cuban prisoner of
consicience 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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