José Óscar Sánchez Madan, born in
Marianao on 10 December 1961
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.
Newsroom.de news for journalists (in German)
/ref> 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
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1961 births
Living people
Cuban journalists
Cuban male journalists
Cuban dissidents