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International organizations condemn human rights violations in Cuba at United Nations A Member of the Cuban Democratic Directorate speaks before the assembly
“On repeated occasions the government of 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. Send by E-mail | Printable Version
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