August 26, 1998  Cuba to try jailed dissident on Friday -
activists  HAVANA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A prominent jailed Cuban
dissident accused of "enemy propaganda" and "spreading false
information" will go on trial in Havana on Friday, opposition
groups said this week.  The trial of Reinaldo Alfaro Garcia,
whom U.K.-based rights group Amnesty International has adopted
on its list of ``prisoners of conscience,'' would be the first
high-profile trial of a Cuban dissident for months.  Alfaro was
jailed on May 8, 1997, after denouncing alleged ill-treatment in
Cuban prisons, according to dissident sources in Havana. He is a
leader of the small Association for the Struggle against
Injustice (ALFIN) and executive member of the better-known
Democratic Solidarity Party (PSD).  Both are illegal movements
in communist-run Cuba, a one-party state.  The opposition
sources said Alfaro would be tried at Havana's Provincial
Popular Court and faced a maximum sentence of 12 years. There
was no official confirmation of the trial