Madrid Spain.- The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) denounced this Tuesday that at least 406 repressive actions were registered in Cuba by the regime during the month of March.
Of these acts, which constitute violations of Human Rights, 121 were related to arbitrary arrests and 285 to abuses such as harassment, fines, police citations, threats, forced exile, labor expulsion, besieged homes and trials, the OCDH specified.
The organization referred to specific cases such as the constant harassment of the Ladies in White and relatives of political prisoners, as well as the police surveillance imposed on activist Camila Rodríguez.
Given these facts, the Observatory condemned the regime for “consolidate its offensive against the opposition and activists, who find themselves in the position of choosing between constant harassment, prison or exile.”
In its monthly report The OCDH also lamented the attitude of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Antonia Urrejola, who considered that Cuba “is a country that is in dialogue with the international community and that has also suffered the issue of economic sanctions.”
“It is worrying that the former president of an organization such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) does not see the seriousness or minimizes what is happening in Cuba; for more than 63 years an entire country has been deprived of the most elementary political, civil and economic rights. There are currently more than 1,000 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, including minors, women, the elderly and the sick, for having exercised their right to free demonstration (…) or for ignoring the absence of guarantees of social rights, the product of a system economic failure”, said the OCDH in this regard.
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