Cuba detains rocker, will try him for 'social dangerousness'
By Frances Robles | Miami Herald
The Cuban rocker whose biting profanity-laced lyrics against the Castro government has previously gotten him in trouble is now in detention and expected to face trial Friday, according to human rights groups in Havana.
Gorki Aguila, 39, heads Porno Para Ricardo -- Porn for Ricardo -- a 10-year-old punk rock group that regularly denounces the government in its songs. Aguila was picked up Monday during a rehearsal for an album tentatively called ''Geriatric Central Committee,'' an apparent jab at the aging members of Cuba's communist party leadership.
He is charged with ''pre-crime social dangerousness,'' a law the Cuban government uses on people it considers a threat to the revolution.
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