MIAMI, United States.- The Embassy of the United States (USA) in Cuba on Friday called on the regime in Havana to suspend interrogations and threats to the mothers of the political prisoners of July 11 who publicly denounce the situation of their children. in prisons across the country.
“The Cuban government must stop detaining, interrogating and threatening the mothers of #11J prisoners who speak publicly about their children. We believe that the majority of Cubans feel the same. A mother’s love is not a threat to national security. #PresosPorQué”, reads the publication of the diplomatic headquarters on its Facebook social network account.
The US government has been very aware of the situation of Cuban prisoners since the social outbreak in Cuba, and just this week it condemned the repression that the Miguel Díaz-Canel dictatorship has unleashed against the 11J protesters, who have been deprived of their freedom and sentenced to long prison sentences, some of up to 30 years.
The Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Department of State, Brian A. Nichols, he said in a post on Twitter that the oppression against those who demonstrated on that day has been “relentless.”
“On 11J the Cuban regime unleashed a wave of relentless oppression against its own people. Each and every one of the voices that are raised in the face of this repression make a difference in the lives of those unjustly persecuted,” said the US official.
The publication of the US Embassy in Havana and Nichols’ message are part of the “Prisoners for Why” campaign, promoted for several years by members of independent civil society in Cuba and which has been supported by numerous actors in the community. international.
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