CUBA, Havana. After a two-hour search in the flat of Havana resident Rene Barcely, police confiscated a satellite dish, a video recorder and several videotapes, marking the objects as "subversive". Mr. Barcely was also fined 500 pesos (about $20).
According to CubaNet agency-s information, four police officers under the command of the head of police department | Rey Rodrigez and officer Alberto Falcon, visited Mr. Barcely on 13 February. The man said that he had bought the dish for $800 about a year previous. He showed the policemen the receipts confirming that the satellite dish and the video recorder were purchased legally. Next day after the search, he was called to the | police station. He was asked what channels he had watched and for what purpose he had recorded television programmes. The policemen stated that he should have obtained a permission to own such equipment, and despite the produced receipts, they said that he lied. In the end, Mr. Barcely was released after being fined another 1000 pesos.
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