Posted on 11/15/2003 2:35:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
HAVANA, (AFP) - Cuban independant journalist Bernardo Arevalo Padron hhas been freed from a prison in eastern Cuba after having served six years on conviction of committing an "outrage" against the Communist government of President Fidel Castro, his friends said
"Effective yesterday (Thursday), Bernardo was released and is with his wife in Camaguey," 500 km (310 miles) east of Havana, Laura Pollan, wife of imprisoned dissident Hector Maseda, told AFP.
Maseda is serving a 20-year sentence imposed last March after his arrest with 74 other opponents of the Castro regime.
Arevalo Padron, founder of the former independant press agency Linea Sur Press, which operated illegally in Cuba, was convicted on November 28 1997 and sentenced to six years in prison for anti-revolutionary activities.
Pollan said he told her by telephone that he was "in good health, even though he felt a bit nervous after such a long confinement," and that he would return to the capital in the coming days.
Paging...Dan Rather.
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