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Costa Rican Representatives Join in Solidarity with Cuban Political Prisoners
By Cuban Democratic Directorate

During a conference, a photograph exposition in tribute to the Ladies in White is inaugurated

Costa Rican Representatives and the Costa Rican Committee in Solidarity with Democracy in Cuba during a conference at the Legislative Assembly in Costa Rica. Cuban Democratic Directorate.

Costa Rican Representatives and the Costa Rican Committee in Solidarity with Democracy in Cuba during a conference at the Legislative Assembly in Costa Rica. Cuban Democratic Directorate.

San José, June 11, 2007. – The Cuban Democratic Directorate makes public the following press release:

 

The Costa Rican Committee in Solidarity with Democracy in Cuba held a press conference in the Legislative Assembly in San José, Costa Rica, on June 7 to denounce the inhumane condition in which more than 300 political prisoners are currently facing in Cuba. Normando Hernández González, detained during the crackdown of Cuban journalists, where 75 peaceful activists were imprisoned, was one of the prisoners named by the representatives due to his delicate state of health.

 

Blanca González, mother of the prisoner, was present during the conference and spoke about the critical situation in which his son and those who remain unjustly imprisoned in Cuba are facing.

 

The Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Costa Rica, Milan Jokobec, as well as Comittee members and legislators José  Manuel Echandi (National Union Party), Fernando Sánchez (National Liberation Party), and Evita Arguedas (Libertarian Movement), took part in the press conference which made this denunciation public and opened the It is Also Our Problem photo exhibition. These black and white photographs chronicle the experiences of the Ladies in White, a movement of the aggrieved mothers, sisters, wives and family members of Cuban political prisoners.

One of the most emotional moments of the opening came as Ambassador Jakobdec took to the stage with his guitar to perform Ladies in White, a song he wrote in honor of these brave women, for the very first time.                                            

About one hundred people attended the opening, including ambassadors and officials from the Czech Republic, the United States, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Chile, and Panama. Costa Rican dignitaries included Kathia Granados, presidential delegate for Culture; Federico Malavassi, acting president of the Libertarian Movement Party; and Epsy Campbell Parr, president of the Citizen Action Party; as well as various other leaders of political parties.

The exhibition is open to the public at the National Gallery of the Children’s Museum, in San José. It is presented by the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Committee in Solidarity with Democracy in Cuba.

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