(EFE).- Justice 11J launched this Wednesday a campaign to request that international human rights organizations have access to Cuban prisons and see the situation inside these centers.
“There is no definitive number of people detained for their participation in the July 2021 protests, it is unknown (…) how many remain in state custody and under investigation,” the organization denounced in a press release with the that launched the campaign that will bear the name “Look at the prisons of Cuba”.
“The specific location of the detention centers where they are detained is unknown, and the breakdown by jail or other place of detention in different parts of the country”
He insisted that “the specific location of the detention centers where they are detained is unknown, and the breakdown by jail or other place of detention in different parts of the country.”
The NGO recalled that a recent investigation, the Cubalex organization documented 14 torture techniques applied in the country’s prisons and that the International Committee of the Red Cross has not had access to a Cuban prison for more than 30 years.
Under the auspices of the organization Article 19, different international civil organizations presented the report on May 18 in Mexico In Cuba they torture with the recommendations of the United Nations Committee Against Torture, which reviewed the situation on the island last April.
The association Prisoners Defenders, based in Spain, documented between 1,500 and 2,000 defendants, in addition to more than 1,000 who remain in pending criminal proceedings for participating in the historic demonstrations last July against the Cuban government.
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