ST. PAUL, Minnesota - The organization Pastors for Peace continues to come under attack from the U.S. government because of its effort in January and February to organize a shipment of medical supplies and computers to Cuba. Some 400 computers were confiscated, and the government is trying to subpoena the records of the project, called the U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment. It is also demanding the records of the previous Friendshipments organized since 1992. Pastors for Peace lawyers are trying to limit the scope of the subpoena to the point of the violation of the U.S. embargo. Government attorneys are seeking to gain the broadest possible access to the records of the Friendshipments. The next hearings on the subpoena have been postponed to June.
Four leading activists of Pastors for Peace, including its director, Lucius Walker, are on a fast demanding the release of the computers. On May 12 the U.S. Treasury Department said it would release those of the computers that originated in Canada.
- Tom Fiske
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