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In Cuba, a death in custody, a flag raising, a raid

Started by Shana A, September 16, 2011, 08:48:14 AM

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September 16, 2011, 08:48:14 AM
In Cuba, a death in custody, a flag raising, a raid
By Paul Canning
14 September, 2011

http://lgbtasylumnews.mobstac.com/2011/09/in-cuba-death-in-custody-flag-raising.html/

A number of expat Cuban websites, such as EU-funded Cuba Encuentro, are reporting the death in police custody in Havana of a trans man 8 September.

Nelson Linares García, 34, had been arrested along with "about a dozen of homosexuals, ->-bleeped-<-s and transsexuals in Old Havana" in Fraternity Park and "died while under arrest". A doctor certified "respiratory arrest" as the cause of death, but the authorities did not conduct an autopsy, according to Penúltimos Días.

According to Imbert Leannes Acosta, director of El Observatorio Cubano de los Derechos de la Comunidad LGBT (OBCUD LGBT, Cuban Observatory of the Rights of the LGBT), Linares García's friends informed the police repeatedly that he had hypertension but they did not pay attention.
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