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International organizations condemn human rights violations in Cuba at United Nations
By Cuban Democratic Directorate

A Member of the Cuban Democratic Directorate speaks before the assembly

John Suarez, member of the Cuban Democratic Directorate

John Suarez, member of the Cuban Democratic Directorate

 

GENEVA, September 26, 2006, Cuban Democratic Directorate – Representatives of international NGO’s condemned the systematic human rights violations in Cuba today at the second meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Their statements followed that of Madame Christine Chanet, Special Representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the current situation in Cuba.

 

“On repeated occasions the government of Cuba has been asked to join the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as its two Special Procedures, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. The response of the Cuban government has been silence and its refusal to accept the mandate of the High Commissioner’s Personal Representative, whose entry to Cuba has been impossible. This attitude can be explained by the facts. In Cuba, the people’s fundamental rights are violated. There are more than 300 political prisoners held in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions,” stated Natalia Bellusova, representing the Liberal International.

 

In a joint declaration, the Centrist Democrat International, Freedom House and the Transnational Radical Party affirmed that: “According to independent reports, there are more than 300 political prisoners. There are 23 journalists imprisoned for writing or stating their opinions. More than 60 human rights activists were imprisoned without trial between 2005 and 2006. Dozens of families of human rights activists have been attacked in the well-known ‘acts of repudiation’ in the past year. Repression inside prisons, especially against political prisoners, increases with each day.”

 

“In spite of the strong pressure exerted by the Cuban regime here in Geneva to block the participation of NGOs that are critical of the Island’s system, we were able to speak and condemn the horrors committed in Cuba against human rights activists and political prisoners,” said John Suárez, who read the aforementioned joint declaration.

 

 

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