FROM CUBA

EDITORS OF "TRANSITION" ARE HARASSED/Miguel Fernandez Martinez

Distributed by CubaNet-Org.

1) Harassment to Ana Maria Agramonte
2) Nancy Sotolongo is detained and threatened.


Harassment to Ana Maria Agramonte.

HAVANA, March 14, 1997. By Miguel Fernandez Martinez.- Opposition leader Ana Maria Agramonte Crespo, president of Nationalist Action Movement, is being subjected to intense harassment at the hands of State Security forces. Mrs. Agramonte was subjected to threatening phone calls, even against her children and mother. Another of the strategies used against Mrs. Ana Maria Agramonte consists of the placement of several placards throughout the city, where she's supposedly requesting to exchange her residence, and she's constantly receiving visits of persons seeking to exchange residence.

These incidents are connected to the recent appearance in Havana of Transicion newspaper. The paper, an official distribution of UPECI, of which organization the president of the Nationalist Action Movement is a board member.


Nancy Sotolongo is detained and threatened.

HAVANA, March 14, 1997. By Miguel Fernandez Martinez.- In the morning hours of March 13, opposition member Nancy Sotolongo was detained. Sotolongo is a member of Nationalist Action Movement. It has been the second time that she has been detained since the first issue of newspaper Transicion, this paper is the official bulletin of the Independent Union of Journalists and Writers of Cuba. At the time of the detention, the State Security officers allowed her to see the preliminary file that they've compiled against her for her alleged crimes of enemy propaganda and clandestine press.


Translated for CubaNet by Lourdes Arriete