José Óscar Sánchez Madan

José Óscar Sánchez Madan, born in Marianao on 10 December 1961[1] is a Cuban journalist and author in several Cuban newspapers, and a regular contributor of the Miami-based independent news agency CUBANET.

As spokesman Elizardo Sánchez Santa-Cruz of the Cuba human rights group CCDHRN said, Óscar Sánchez Madan was arrested on Friday April 13, 2007 and was convicted to four years of prison a few hours after his arrest by a secret court in an accelerated process in Union de Reyes, a village east of Havana. He got no defence lawyer and no relatives were allowed to attend the lawsuit.[2] He was convicted under the charges of "pre-criminal social danger", a legal subterfuge that allows the Cuban authorities to imprison any citizen as a potential danger to society, even if they have not committed a crime. His arrest put the toll of imprisoned journalists up to 26 as of June 2007.

Sources
  1. Síntesis biográfíca de José Oscar Sánchez Madan
  2. Newsroom.de news for journalists (in German)
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