Cuba: Further information on Fear for safety / Fear of torture / Intimidation / Harassment

Index Number: AMR 25/001/2007
Date Published: 22 January 2007
Categories: Americas, Cuba

The authorities have threatened to jail human rights defender Juan Carlos Gonz�lez Leiva unless he gives up his human rights work. They have also threatened to imprison an independent journalist, Tania Maceda Guerra, who has been staying at his family's house for her unofficial journalistic work. Human rights defender Miguel Vald�s Tamayo died of a heart attack on 10 January.