E/CN.4/1992/52
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Cuba
23. In a message sent to the Government of Cuba on 29 November 1990, the
Special Rapporteur transmitted the following information:
"According to information received, the following persons or groups of
persons are said to have been persecuted for their religious beliefs:
1.
Alejandro Rodriguez Castillo, a prisoner at Combinado del Este. He
was robbed of his bible in May 1990 and refused another one by the
authorities. He therefore went on hunger strike, for which he was moved to a
punishment cell;
2.
Oscar Peña Rodriguez, a Jehovah's Witness, was arrested on
12 December 1989 and taken to Jagua psychiatric hospital, where he has been
given large doses of psychotropic drugs;
3.
Emilio Rodriguez was taken for a time to a psychiatric hospital in
Santa Clara at the end of February 1990, after religious publications relating
to the Jehovah's Witnesses were found in his possession;
4.
Mabel López González, Fidel Diaz Pacheco, Alberto Bárbaro
Villavicencio, Narciso Ramírez Lorenzo, Alfredo Falcón Moneada and
Mercedes Peito Paredes, Jehovah's Witnesses, were arrested in Sagua La Grande,
Las Villas province, on 18 January 1990. Religious literature was confiscated
from them and they were accused of running a clandestine printing press;
5.
Marcela Rodríguez Rodríguez, Paulino Águila Pérez, Ramón López Peña
and Guillermo Montes, Jehovah's Witnesses, were fined by the Municipal Court
of San Cristobal on 2 August 1990 for possession of religious literature."
Dominican Republic
24. In a communication addressed to the Government of the Dominican Republic
on 20 September 1990 (E/CN.4/1991/56, para. 5 4 ) , the Special Rapporteur
transmitted the following information:
"According to the information received, some members of the
Maranatajoraalingen Church, of Swedish origin, established in the
Dominican Republic, allegedly suffered a number of human rights violations,
apparently because they belong to this religion.
Complaints have been made relating to the following cases:
1.
Carlos Peña Roa and two other persons. According to the complaint,
these persons have been in La Victoria Prison for 15 years. In the first
11 years of imprisonment they were allegedly denied access to a court to
establish the lawfulness of their imprisonment. They were allegedly convicted
by the Supreme Court on 27 October 1989, although the sentence is not known.