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Cuba rejects US claim over dissident's death
Updated: 2011-05-17 10:42
(Xinhua)
HAVANA - Cuba on Monday rejected US politicians' claim over the death of a Cuban dissident, saying Washington said so because it is "seeking excuses" to invade the island country.
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Soto, 46, died on May 8 at a hospital in Santa Clara, central Cuba. Fellow dissidents and several US politicians claimed that he was beaten by police two days earlier, which, they said, led to his death.
The Cuban government denied any police aggression and said Soto died of acute pancreatitis and complications from other diseases he was suffering at the time. Testimony of Soto's relatives published by Cuban press backed the official account of the death.
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