SLP, Mexico.- This December 10, Human Rights Day, a date that commemorates the approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations Organization in 1948, the Cuban regime continues to deprive of its most basic rights to civil society.
While the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel proclaims in networks social organizations that “the Socialist Revolution” was made to guarantee rights, his henchmen repress any expression of dissent, monitor and persecute those who oppose their Government.
Besieged and watched
The headquarters of the Ladies in White in the Lawton neighborhood of Havana woke up under siege by State Security repressors and the uniformed national police, according to Bertha Soler, leader of the organization.
Other Damas de Blanco homes in different provinces also maintain a police cordon to prevent any demonstration by the human rights in the country.
According to economist and opposition activist Martha Beatriz Roque, three people were monitoring her home this Tuesday, December 10. Although usually one or two repressors are stationed, this Tuesday they sent three people to observe it.
For her part, the journalist from CubaNet Camila Acosta She stated that when she was going to a hospital in Havana, the agents followed her on a motorcycle.
The repressors did not lose sight of her during her journey to the medical consultation. In addition, a police patrol was parked outside his house early in the morning.
“Like every December 10 5 years ago, today I have surveillance by the political police. As can be seen in the photo, in the corner of my house there is a police patrol (two uniformed police officers) and a motorcycle with a State Security officer dressed in civilian clothes,” he wrote in his networks social.
Although, as she argued, she is not subject to any judicial process, the regime remains on the lookout. Surveillance is a “totally arbitrary act, violating my human rights and even the Cuban Constitution,” Acosta stated.
Her case is not far from that of the political prisoner’s mother Andy Garciawho was followed by State Security when he left his house. “We are not going to remain silent,” she transmitted in a video, while her house remained surrounded by agents and she, from inside, cried out for help for her son, who has been on a hunger strike for 13 days.
According to Cubalexdozens of opponents suffer police siege in their homes, among them, Oscar Elías Biscet, José Elías González Agüero, Yunia Figueredo and Roberto Quiñones, who was also detained in Baracoa, Guantánamo.
No internet access
As another mechanism of repression, the Government has undertaken this Tuesday selective cuts to the internet service and slowdown of the connection.
This was reported to Cubalex by activist Alejandro Garlobo, who was unable to access the service on December 10.
6/ Vladimir Turró Páez and Anay Remón, journalists from @CubanetNewsreported internet and telephone outages. In addition, State Security and the president of the CDR where Turró resides warned him that he could not leave his house. https://t.co/n5VflqtPP3
— Cubalex (@CubalexDDHH) December 10, 2024
At least two reporters from CubaNet They also do not have mobile internet or telephone service on the Island.
“They cut off my internet since last night,” journalist Vladimir Turró Páez, a resident of Havana, confirmed to this Editorial Team. “Now State Security has just come with the president of the CDR to tell me that I cannot leave the house,” the reporter also reported.
Journalist Anay Remón is without internet service or phone signal.
CubaNet He tried to communicate unsuccessfully with other of his correspondents and collaborators on the Island. The lack of communication suggests that they are in the same situation as Turró and Remón.
Cuba is experiencing an unfortunate fuel crisis that causes blackouts of more than 12 hours in some locations, but there is no shortage of gasoline to mobilize patrols and motorcycles to lay siege to Cuban activists.
The wave of harassment against independent and opposition journalists in the country continues to grow. Intimidation of reporters and activists is a common tactic used by Havana to suppress critical voices and prevent the dissemination of information not controlled by the State.
