Ángel Moya was released with violence and against his will.
Martí Noticias
February 12, 2011

Translation: Eva Belfrage

The political prisoner of the 75 Group, Angel Moya, who had first had refused to be exiled to Spain and then refused to be freed until those in worse health conditions were released, was release against his will and with heavy beating by the political police who drove him with brutality to his home in the neighbourhood of Alamar in East Havana, where they had prepared a paramilitary mob to receive him with a repudiation act.

Berta Soler, the Lady in White old Radio Martí the details about what happened on saturday with her husband and in that moment when she was talking to the radio a terrible repudiation act was going on orchestrated by the Cuban political police.

The recently liberated Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, also freed against his will, was present in the residence of Ángel Moya when the progrom was going on and told Radio Martí how things were.

Àngel Moya himself testified to the radio how he was dragged by force from his prison cell and how a Coronel Samper from the political police gave order to take him outside the prison without saving on violence.

To listen to the testimonies of Moya, Maseda and Berta in Spanish click here.
 

Héctor Maseda returns home
Martí Noticias
February 12, 2011
Translation: Eva Belfrage

The Cuban political prisoner from the Group of 75, Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, who had refused to be conditionally released on parole, was released this Saturday and is now in his home in the central neigbourhoods of Havana.
The Cardenal Jaime Ortega y Alamino communicated by phone with Maseda on thursday to inform him that he was soon to be released, but the prisoner assured him that he did not accept to leave the prison if he was not granted amnesty or complete freedom. Héctor Maseda Gutiérres was arrested on 19 March 2003, sentenced to 20 years in prison in a summary trial. In 2008 the Committee to Protect Journalists, with its head quarters in New York, gave him the international prize Free Press.
Maseda Gutiérrez, was born on 18 of January 1943, graduated in 1974 as electro engineer, especialist in automatic control and digital electronics at the university of Havana. He has published scientific work and is one of the founders of the Cuban Physics Association Section for Nuclear Physics and is a numeric member of the Cuban Academy of higher Mosonic studies. The independent journalist has written texts for Reporters without Boarder, Encuentro en la Red, Cubanet and has published in dailies like Lo Monde in France, El nuevo Herald in Miami and the New York Times and others.
From prison Maseda wrote a book of testimony entitled Enterrados Vivos (burried alive), of which the two first volumes have been published and where he tells about the prison conditions for the political detainees.

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