E/CN.4/1992/52 page 10 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.