Cuba’s Supreme Court Reduces Punishment of Engineer Fired Over Documentary

Cuba's Supreme Court Reduces Punishment of Engineer Fired Over Documentary
July 10, 2012

HAVANA TIMES — Cuba's Supreme Court reinstated engineer Luis Orlando
Abascal to the job from which he was fired in February 2011 for
possessing a documentary about sexuality on a company-owned computer,
reported the Trabajadores newspaper.

The court made "null and void the final disciplinary measure," but
ordered Abascal's "demotion to a lower-paying position, one of reduced
responsibilities or his transfer to different working conditions for one
year," read the news note in the Cuban workers' weekly.

In their final ruling, the judges "confirmed that the engineer breached
the regulations governing information security" in the state sector,
since he had kept the documentary "on a machine that was property of the
entity and a work tool provided to him."

Abascal, however, has the "right to work and receive financial
compensation for the damages caused."

The documentary in question was A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex, a
series of eight educational documentaries produced by the British sexual
health expert Dr. Catherine Hood.

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