Juan Wilfredo Soto Graca / Ricardo Medina
Ricardo Medina, Translator: Hank Hardisty
Abdel Rodriguez Arteaga, Vice Presidentof the Cuba Independent and
Democratic Party, gave to the Attorney General's Office, at noon, July
11th, a document in support of the request for investigation to the
death of Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia. The original request was made by two
priests on June 8th.
Copies of the document, presented by Rodriguez Arteaga, were delivered
to the State Council, Ministry of Interior and Justice, and were
accompanied by a hundred signatures in support of the request for
investigation to the death of Soto Garcia, presented by the priests:
Ricardo Santiago Medina Lleonart Salabarria and Mario Felix Barroso,on
June 8th.
The letter dated July 8, states that the signatories ask the Attorney
General to exercise his powers to:
1) Give a public explanation from the Cuban government of this
lamentable event.
2) Restore the Methodist Pastor Yordi Alberto Toranzo Collado to his
pastoral ministry and to his rectory in the Methodist Church: "The
Trinity" of Santa Clara. Bishop Ricardo Pereira Diaz, (Bishop of the
Methodist Church in Cuba) removed him under pressure from the Department
Religious Affairs, Ministry of Justice, after the minister attended the
funeral of Soto Garcia.
Copies of this document were given, in addition to the Legal Affairs
Committee of Parliament, to His Eminence Cardinal Jaime Ortega,
Archbishop of Havana, and Bishop Ricardo Pereira Diaz, Bishop of the
Methodist Church in Cuba.
Translated by Hank Hardisty
June 11 2011
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