MIAMI, United States. — Prisoners Defenders, a non-governmental organization that monitors violations against the prison population in Cuba, filed a complaint against the island’s regime for hundreds of violations of due process.
The report, presented to the United Nations (UN), reports on structural patterns that violate the due process and effective defense in the Cuban procedural system.
The complaint stems from an analysis made by lawyers (coordinated by Prisoners Defenders) on the complete individual opinions of more than 300 victims.
“More than 5,000 pages of legal work that leave no uncertainty about the arbitrariness and illegality for which thousands of families in Cuba suffer, just for having expressed their feelings, desires and needs, with one or more of their members in prison, tortured and with sentences that in not a few cases are counted for tens of years, “said the NGO.
According to Prisoners Defenders, the more than 300 cases analyzed make it possible to determine that the 1,077 political prisoners registered on the island until last month “have suffered the same procedural violations and all, without exception, should be released immediately.”
Likewise, the organization calls on the island’s regime to “compensate the victims of arbitrary deprivation of liberty, in addition, for the atrocities suffered by them in prison, and also by their relatives outside prison, who have been and are threatened, persecuted, harassed, interrogated, cited, fined and even detained as well”.
Presenting the report to the UN were Dita Charanzová, Vice President of the European Parliament, Javier Nart, Member of the European Parliament, Blas Jesús Imbroda, President of the CGAE Subcommittee on Immigration and International Protection, Fernando Almeyda, International Legal Coordinator of Prisoners Defenders and Javier Larrondo, President of that organization.
As part of the exhibition, Javier Larrondo read a message sent by Giulio Terzi, senator and president of the Global Committee for the Rule of Law “Marco Pannella”. The Venezuelan lawyer, writer and politician Antonio Ledezma also intervened virtually in the presentation.
