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HAVANA - should return to Italy in the coming hours Francesco Battistini of Corriere della Sera sent to Cuba, stopped by police Havana. The journalist the island was to follow the proceedings of the meeting of dissidents Assembly to promote civil society "when a text message with , informed colleagues of the editorial in Italy he was stopped by Cuban police.

The Italian foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini just had confirmation of the measure against the Italian journalist, was immediately summoned the Cuban ambassador intervened in Rome, and demanding the immediate release of Battistini.

"We were alerted by an SMS Battistini" he told Paul Hare, Deputy Foreign Editor's Daily Via Solferino, which had expressed concern about: "We know that equal treatment other journalists have suffered in recent days. I just hope that does not suffer mistreatment .

The editor of Corriere della Sera, Paolo Mieli , had issued a note: " Pending official confirmation of the news coming from Havana, I express all my anger for the detention of our colleague Francesco Battistini, arrested in Cuba. " The statement also revealed that already a few days ago another journalist of the Corriere della Sera, Rocco Cotroneo, was stopped at the border and forced to back down. According

Mieli, the episode highlights the will Cuban authorities to gag the freedom of information in the international press. "The editor of the newspaper asked" the immediate release of Mr Battistini to put an end to a heinous act that shows the nature of that regime is deeply illiberal .

In the evening, followed pitch made by the Ministry in calling the Cuban ambassador in Rome, the authorities in Havana have made known, through the same diplomat, Francesco Battistini that will be embarked on the first available flight to return to Italy .

(May 20, 2005)