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10/14/2004 | WIFE OF CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER DENOUNCES AGGRESSION MISTREATMENT IN GUANTANAMO PRISONVíctor Rolando Arroyo faces humiliation and punishment from his jailers Cuban Democratic Directorate |
09/19/2004 | THE PRAGUE MEMORANDUMFINAL DECLARATION AND WORKING DOCUMENT International Committee for Democracy in Cuba |
| 09/19/2004 | APPEAL TO EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS A call for the respect of human rights in Cuba signed by four European political leaders International Committee for Democracy in Cuba |
09/02/2004 | Cuban Democratic Directorate Calls Attention to Increased Repression in Cuban Prisons, Announces Plan to Petition European Union for SolidarityThe Cuban Democratic Directorate announced today the beginning of a campaign directed at the governments of the European Union soliciting their solidarity with Cuba’s political prisoners and denounced the latest repressive measures of the Cuban regime against Cuban political prisoners, highlighting the case of Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez,” whose sister is presently on hunger strike protesting mistreatment against him. Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 08/24/2004 | REPRESSION AGAINST CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS INTENSIFIES Political Prisoner’s Sister Goes on Hunger Strike; Political Prisoner’s Wife Issues Call for Help After She Is Denied Communication With Husband for Three Months Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 08/06/2004 | TWO CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS IN CRITICAL CONDITION, Political prisoner Margarito Broche Espinosa, currently in critical condition at Salvador Allende Hospital. Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, an independent journalist who was sentenced to 20 years in prison declared himself on hunger strike last July 16th, 2004. Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 08/01/2004 | The Directorio on Cable TAP Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 08/01/2004 | Students, Activists and Legislators throughout the Americas to carry out first world Freedom for Cuba Day Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 07/29/2004 | CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER FASTS DEMANDING AUTHORITIES' ACCOUNTABILITY Cuban political prisoner Jorge Luis García Perez ("Antúnez") began a hunger strike in the early morning hours of July 26 Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 07/28/2004 | Venezuelan Opposition Leader offers press conference in Miami MIAMI, Nov. 1, 2003 -- Cesar Perez-Vivas, General Secretary of COPEI (the Christian Democratic party of Venezuela) and one of the most prominent opposition leaders in Venezuela, offered a press conference in Miami on Nov. 1, 2003, where he presented firsthand the situation in Venezuela Cuban Democratic Directorate |
07/21/2004 | WIVES OF CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS DENOUNCE GOVERNMENT MANIPULATIONDolia Leal Francisco, wife of Cuban political prisoner Nelson Aguiar Ramirez, is denouncing the government’s attempts to manipulate her and other political prisoners’ wives and mothers of the group known as the “Ladies in White” (Damas de Blanco) to keep them from campaigning for the liberation of their loved ones. Cuban Democratic Directorate |
07/06/2004 | PRISON GUARDS VIOLENTLY ATTACK CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER AND FAMILY MEMBERSJorge Luis García Pérez ‘Antúnez’ Brutally Beaten in Front of His Sister Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 06/30/2004 | INTERNATIONAL AND CUBAN EXILE ORGANIZATIONS UNITE TO DENOUNCE POSSIBLE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY IN VENEZUELA’S RECALL REFERENDUM Cuban Democratic Directorate |
06/22/2004 | LATIN AMERICAN LEGISLATORS ADOPT CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERSA group of Latin American congressmen today announced their adoption of six Cuban political prisoners in what constitutes the first initiative by the recently formed Joint Commission of European and Latin American Parliamentarians in Support of Democracy and Human Rights in Cuba. Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 06/16/2004 | PARLIAMENTARIANS AND ACTIVISTS IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA ADVOCATE FOR A COMMON FRONT BETWEEN BOTH REGIONS TOWARD CUBA The need for a common stance between Europe and Latin America toward the Cuban government and an international effort to adopt Cuban political prisoners were the topics of discussion by two Latin American parliamentarians and an Italian political activist in a press conference held in Miami Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 10/23/2003 | British Members of Parliament pass resolution in support of Democracy in Cuba LONDON -- The British Parliament is circulating a resolution, which has been backed by more than 75 British MPs, in support of Cuban political prisoners and democracy in Cuba, announced the Directorio this past Oct. 23rd, 2003. Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 10/21/2003 | Directorio presents cases of Human Rights violations to oas during special audience WASHINGTON, D.C. – Highlighting the cases of the 75 pro-democracy Cuban activists and independent journalists arrested this past March, Directorio member John Suarez testified before the Interamerican Human Rights Commission of the OAS (Organization of American States) on Oct. 21, 2003 Cuban Democratic Directorate |
10/13/2003 | FMLN calls for expulsion of Directorio Members from El SalvadorSAN SALVADOR, Oct. 13, 2003 – Leftist party FMLN (“Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional”) of El Salvador held a press conference today to call for the expulsion of Directorio members Javier de Cespedes and Orlando Gutierrez from the country Cuban Democratic Directorate |
10/09/2003 | Latin American Legislators express concern for possible reprisals against Cuban DissidentsMIAMI -- A group of Latin American parliamentarians expressed their support for the Cuban dissident movement and their concern for any possible reprisals that the regime may take against these activists after the announcement, expected on Oct. 10th, of the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. Cuban Democratic Directorate |
08/27/2003 | Chilean Parlamentarians ask President Lagos to make statement on Cuba at next summit of PresidentsVALPARAISO, Chile, Aug. 27, 2003 – With 57 votes in favor, Chile’s Chamber of Deputies approved a project of agreement today presented by Deputy Patricio Walker, head of the Chamber’s Christian Democratic bloc Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 04/04/2003 | Miami-based activists denounce cuban government’s crackdown at the un Human Rights Commission in Geneva Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 03/19/2003 | Cuban government crackdown against Human Rights and pro Democracy Activists Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 03/13/2003 | The Cuban Democratic Directorate sends open letter to the internal Cuban Resistance Cuban Democratic Directorate |
| 11/30/1999 | Repression Against Members of the Resistance in Western Cuba Intensifies. Activist Released in Critical Health. Other Detainees Remain on Hunger Strike Asamblea de la Resistencia |
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