MADRID, Spain.- The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) registered 340 repressive actions in Cuba during the recently concluded February. In its monthly report, the Madrid-based organization denounced this Tuesday that 115 of these actions were arbitrary arrests.
In the aforementioned month, 225 abuses were also documented, among them activist housing sites, mistreatment of political prisoners in jails, interruption of communications, fines, police summonses, and harassment.
In the document, the Observatory regretted that “the relations and conversations of the United States and the European Union (EU) with Cuba have not stopped the repression nor have they achieved the release of prisoners for political and conscience reasons.”
During 2022, the OCDH documented more than 5,499 repressive actions, at least 1,447 detentions of activists, opponents or relatives of prisoners in their homes and at least 1,354 arbitrary detentions.
At the beginning of the current year, the Observatory, which continues to denounce the repression on the Island, presented the digital tool “24×7” so that Cuban citizens can report human rights violations, with the aim of documenting the situation with greater scope and precision.
In a press release, the NGO explained that complaints can be sent through the web https://247ocdh.comwhich has various channels such as an online form, WhatsApp chat and even a form in Word format, which must be downloaded, filled out and sent to email [email protected]
The tool seeks to document abuses such as unjustified fines, arrests, persecution and threats by an authority, as well as other issues of a social, economic or political nature such as homes in danger or in poor condition, lack of medicines, problems with the water service, labor problems, unjustified expulsions, sanctions for different opinions, salary theft or others.
