The World - News from Aug. 10, 1989

The leaders of three Cuban human rights organizations--arrested earlier this week--have been indicted on charges of spreading false news, the official newspaper Granma reported in Havana. It said they “carried out a campaign of slander through statements to U.S. television and the anti-Cuban radio . . . with the aim of discrediting the action of Cuban courts during the trial against the Ochoa-La Guardia drug traffickers.” Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez and Col. Antonio de la Guardia were convicted and executed last month. The three rights leaders are: Elizardo Sanchez, head of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation; Hiram Abi Cobas, acting head of the Human Rights Party of Cuba, and Hubert Jerez, president of the Jose Marti Commission on Human Rights.