Journalist harassed by police
HAVANA, Cuba -March 1 (Roberto Santana Rodríguez / www.cubanet.org) -
Independent journalist Oscar Sánchez said police in Matanzas picked him
up February 25, took him to the station, and confiscated papers he had
on him for the story he was working on.
Sánchez called the incident a reprisal by the Department of State
Security for recent articles he had written about social problems in
Matanzas, most prominently on alcoholism, AIDS, drug-addiction, and
corruption by a government official in the town of Pedro Betancourt.
Sánchez said several officers questioned him while he was detained. They
asked him whether he is an independent journalist, what is independent
journalism, and whether he had studied journalism and how much he is paid.
The Cuban government licenses journalists and does not consider the
independents to be journalists.
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