Cuba reached in 2022 the highest rate of women arbitrarily detained in the last four years. The figure is documented by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) in its latest reportpublished this Thursday, in which they attest to more than 5,500 repressive actions by the regime at the end of the year.
Last year, the repression of the Díaz-Canel government was consolidated and even went further, adds the OCDH in its report, against sectors of the population traditionally not linked to politics. Imprisonment and exile continue to be a predominant pattern practiced by the regime against dissident voices, and police summonses, threats, and detentions in homes continue.
The organization records that throughout 2022 the Cuban authorities carried out 1,354 arbitrary arrests, of which 832 correspond to women and represent 61.4%, the highest figure since 2018.
The organization records that throughout 2022 the Cuban authorities carried out 1,354 arbitrary detentions, of which 832 correspond to women
1,447 detentions of activists, opponents or relatives of prisoners in their homes were documented, as well as the harassment against the independent press continued with at least 697 repressive actions against journalists who suffered threats, surveillance, subpoenas and restrictions on mobile data and telephony.
Similarly, it denounces that at the end of 2022 in Cuban prisons there are 976 political or conscience pesos, the majority for participating in the massive protests of July 11, 2021 and other subsequent expressions, such as that of Nuevitas in August 2022. The Government uses the figure of the crime of sedition to prosecute the demonstrators, with sentences that average 10 years of imprisonment.
The Observatory recalls that, despite the multiple calls to the international community to intervene and verify the island’s prison system, the Government maintains restricted access to agencies to the 293 centers, which have the highest prison population per capita of Latin America according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
72% of the Cuban population lives on the threshold of extreme poverty and that eight out of 10 cannot get medicines in pharmacies,
The OCDH recalls that the social indicators have deteriorated due to the deep economic crisis that the Island is experiencing, with a general shortage of food and basic necessities. This has led to 72% of the Cuban population living on the threshold of extreme poverty and eight out of 10 unable to get medicines in pharmacies, according to the fifth report on the State of social rights published in October. of 2022.
In its statement, the Observatory reiterates its call on governments and international organizations to “redouble” their support for activists and civil society. It also calls for cooperation programs to be conditional on “real progress in terms of democracy, human rights and economic freedoms”, in addition to the elimination of the new Penal Code.
In the same way, the organization recommends continuing with the sanctions against human rights violators under the principles of the Magnitsky law and other accountability programs of the United States, the European Union or other countries.
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