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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights publishes reports on suspicious deaths of dissidents in Cuba
By Directorio Democrático Cubano

Miami, May 1, 2013. Cuban Democratic Directorate. The office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, Navi Pillay, has published on the page of the Universal Periodic Review of the Cuban regime the report sent by the Cuban Democratic Directorate documenting the deaths of at least eight human rights defenders under non clarified circumstances and also death threats to other members of the civic movement in the island over the past four years.

 

http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session16/CU/DDC_UPR_CUB_S16_213_DirectorioDemocr%C3%A1ticoCubano_E.pdf

 

Also, on the same page is reproduced the report presented by the Centrist Democrat International (CDI) and signed by its representative to the UN Mrs. Anna Maria Cervone, who denounces the suspicious circumstances of the death of Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero on July 22, 2012, being Paya honorary Vice-President of the CDI. The report was submitted in October of 2012, joins the Payá’s family call for an independent investigation to ascertain the facts.

 

http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session16/CU/CDI_UPR_CUB_S16_2013_CentristDemocratInternational_S.pdf

During the Universal Periodic Review that took place this May 1, 2013 at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, other critical reports on the situation of human rights were discussed, presented and included in the general report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights  of the Council, Navi Pillay, including several sent from Cuba on arbitrary detention, conditions in prisons and the use of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment against human rights defenders on the island.

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