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The Cuba Notebook - "Stop writing, leave the country or go to jail"*** HAVANA · Like many independent journalists here, Ivan Garcia is on a first-name basis with the government agent assigned to keep tabs on him. Agente Jesus summoned Garcia to a police station in his Havana neighborhood twice last year and warned him not to attend gatherings with other reporters who work outside the state run media. But in their most recent encounter a couple of weeks ago Jesus had a more direct message.***

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Treat Dissident, U.S. Tells Cuba [Full Text] WASHINGTON, June 2 - The Bush administration demanded today that Cuba provide adequate medical attention to Óscar Espinosa Chepe, a dissident journalist with liver disease. Mr. Chepe, 62, was among 75 writers, economists and human rights activists sentenced to prison this spring in a sweeping campaign against government critics.

Sentenced to 20 years for treason, Mr. Chepe is being held in eastern Cuba, far from his family and a hospital able to treat his condition, which relatives say is deteriorating. A State Department spokesman, Philip T. Reeker, said the Cuban government "appears to be going out of its way" to treat the dissidents inhumanely.

"The United States demands that the Cuban government provide Mr. Chepe with adequate health care and transfer him to a hospital where he can receive the level of care commensurate with his illness," Mr. Reeker said. [End]