Carlos Fernández de Cossío offered an interview within the framework of the recent sessions of the United Nations General Assembly.
Lima, Peru – “Not even one,” denied Cuban vice chancellor Carlos Fernández de Cossío when questioned in New York, United States, about the existence of political prisoners on the island.
In an interview with the journalist Mehdi Hasan, from Zeteothe Castro regime diplomat rejected the reports of Amnesty International that for years has denounced the repression of protesters, activists, independent journalists and the dissent in Cuba.
“Amnesty International has been saying that for years,” said Fernández de Cossío, claiming that the organization does not evidence in its reports. The interview took place within the framework of the recent sessions of the United Nations General Assembly.
“Maybe it’s because you have been doing it for years,” said the journalist. “Do you think Amnesty International has no evidence in your reports? Do you know what they make reports on the United States and Israel too? I am sure they support them.”
Mehdi Hasan recalled that the surveillance of the organization, together with Human Rights Watch, expands to dozens of governments around the world in a “consistent” way, regardless of whether they are left or right, communists or capitalists, “democratic or dictatorial.”
The Cuban official justified that Amnesty International She was stubborn with the island and wielded the usual rhetoric of Castroism, accusing him of being a “funded” entity by antisocialism.
“Then to be clear, do you not believe that critics and Protestants are arbitrarily arrested in Cuba?” The reporter insisted.
“No. Not arbitrarily,” Fernández de Cossío revalidated.
The power figures within the Cuban regime, accustomed to the self -complacency of their state communication media, usually navigate the scrutiny of the free press with attachment to the official discourse of the Communist Party, leaving prints such as those of the Vice Chancellor in New York that stand out for irrationality and absurdity.
August closed in Cuba with a record of political prisoners
The Non -Governmental Organization Prisoners Defenders also registered in its most recent report that at the end of August 2025 in Cuba there was a new record of 1,185 political prisoners.
In Your monthly partthe NGO based in Madrid stressed that 13 new political prisoners had entered the list during August “to add another tragic record.” In the same period, four casualties were also registered on the list, three of which are due to the full compliance of sanctions.
The cases of the 13 new political prisoners who have entered the list, highlights Prisoners Defenders, reflect a recurring pattern of political persecution, disproportionate use of force, manufacture of positions and application of extremely severe criminal convictions, all with the aim of silencing any form of opposition to the Cuban regime.
Among the victims are peaceful activists and protesters, common citizens, many of them under conditions of special vulnerability, subject to cruel, beating and long precautionary arrests ordered by the accusation and without any judicial protection.
Also, the NGO highlights 472 prisoners With medical pathologies serious and 41 political prisoners between bars with serious mental health disorders without medical or psychiatric treatment
“Cuba has totaled 1,882 political prison In X (before Twitter).
The Castro regime has 33 minors among their political prisoners, 30 of whom comply with sentences, while three still cross criminal proceedings without judicial protection. On the other hand, to date 122 women imprisoned for political reasons continue.
