Cuban dissident sentenced to a third year in prison; warned for "inciting to rebellion"

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, (María Elena Alpízar, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org ) - 

Atila Sáez was sentenced on November 25 to two years in prison for "disrespect" toward Fidel Castro. On December 2, he was sentenced to one more year for disrespect toward the court that tried him in the first instance.

Sáez, 23, was tried by the Municipal Tribunal of Placetas, Villa Clara province.

During the first trial, there was an altercation between him and the presiding judge, ended only after several police forcefully pinned Sáez down.

Outside the courtroom, several dissidents who had not been allowed into the courtroom milled about in a show of support for Sáez.

A few hours after the trial, activist José Antonio Pérez said, two officers of the political police showed up at his home and told him he was "inciting to rebellion" since at the first trial he had been present by himself and at this second trial he had brought five more dissidents with him. Pérez said police told him he would face the consequences.

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