HAVANA, November 15 (José Antonio Fornaris, Cuba-Verdad) –
Independent journalist María Elena Rodríguez was questioned for
four hours yesterday by an agent of the Department of State Security.
Rodríguez was called to a meeting at the national ID card office in
10 de Octubre municipality, in Havana, and upon arriving, was shuffled into an
office where a State Security agent who calls himself Jesús was waiting
for her.
The agent accused the journalist of falsifying the news and of allowing
herself to be manipulated from the United States. "You are paid from abroad
for information against the government," he said. He further threatened
the journalist with Law 88, a gag law enacted by the government more than a year
ago but never so far applied.
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