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- Source/Author: Amnesty International
Amnesty Int'l Calls Out Castroism for Not Allowing N15 Protests. Cuba: Rejection of request to protest is yet another example of intolerance of freedom of expression.
In light of the Cuban governmentâs negative response to requests from civil society to hold a Civic March for Change, planned for 15 November, to call for the release of activists detained for exercising their rights, including following the historic protests of 11 July, as well for human rights to be respected and for differences to be resolved through dialogue, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said:
âGroups of people from various provinces around the country have been submitting requests in recent weeks to different local governments asking for authorization to carry out peaceful marches, organized in a clearly defined way in a legitimate exercise of their right to freedom of expression. Instead of guaranteeing these rights, President Miguel DĂaz-Canelâs government has declared these civil society marches âillegalâ and âunconstitutionalâ, once again violating the right to peaceful protest in Cuba.â
The international community must not forget the hundreds of people detained during the historic protests on 11 July 2021 simply for peacefully exercising their right, as well as the six people named prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International shortly afterwards
Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International
âAmnesty International has received reports that activists have been arbitrarily detained and that people who have responded to the Archipelago groupâs calls to demonstrate have been harassed, intimidated and put under surveillance by members of the security forces. This response by the authorities is consistent with the policy of repression, applied for decades in Cuba, which criminalizes peaceful protest and imprisons and ill-treats Cubans from all walks of life solely for expressing their opinions. We will be monitoring the actions of the authorities, to denounce any act of repression against protesters.â
âThe international community must not forget the hundreds of people detained during the historic protests on 11 July 2021 simply for peacefully exercising their right, as well as the six people named prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International shortly afterwards, as a symbolic gesture towards the many hundreds more who likely deserve this designation, who must be released immediately and unconditionally.â
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- Source/Author: The CubanAmerican Voice
A ninth high-ranking Cuban military officer died this weekend, the regime's Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) said Sunday.
A statement from the dictatorship broadcast by the regime's state-run television station on Sunday reported the death of Felix Baranda ColumbiĂŠ, who died Saturday of COVID-19-disease caused by the CPC virus.
Baranda becomes the ninth high-ranking military member of the Cuban regime to die since the first case reported by the regime or the pro-government press on July 17.
Baranda is the ninth high-ranking military member of the Cuban regime to die since the first case reported by the regime or the pro-government press on July 17.
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- Source/Author: CubaNet.org
UNICEF in complicit silence in the face of Cuba's 11J teenage victims. More than a month has passed since the protests and Cubans are still struggling to cope with the pandemic and the unequal struggle against a legal system subordinated to the Communist Party (PCC). There are still hundreds of prisoners condemned in summary proceedings, or waiting in preventive prison for the verdict of judges more predisposed to punishment than to reason. Behind every one of those prisoners serving or at risk of serving an excessive sentence for having come out to demonstrate peacefully, there is a family that has been forced to restructure its way of life, if such a thing exists under a regime that keeps millions subsisting on the bare necessities, without food, medicine, decent housing or hope.
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- Source/Author: DIARIO DE CUBA
Castro's dictatorship legalizes Internet censorship with Decree-Law 35. The provision limits freedom of expression on the Internet and qualifies calls for protests as cyber-terrorism.
The Cuban regime published on Tuesday in the Official Gazette No.92 Decree-Law 35 on "Telecommunications, Information and Communication Technologies and the Use of the Radioelectric Spectrum", which prohibits calling for protests through the Internet, which is described as "cyberterrorism".
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