MADRID, Spain.- In July, at least 418 repressive actions against the Cuban population were recorded by the country’s authorities, denounced The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) reported in its monthly report published on Tuesday. The documented actions include 70 arbitrary arrests and 145 illegal detentions in homes.
Among the main repressive actions recorded by the network of observers on the Island and exposed in the monthly report of the OCDH, the following stand out: arbitrary arrests, illegal sieges on homes, threats, police summons, harassmentfines, trials and convictions, abuses against political prisoners and their families, and violations of religious rights, among other forms of repression.
The provinces of Havana, Matanzas and Mayabeque were the most affected by government repression in July. The document denounces 72 cases of abuse by prison officials against political prisonersand nine similar cases against common prisoners.
El OCDH denunció este martes que en julio se produjeron al menos 418 acciones represivas contra la población civil en #Cuba, entre ellas 70 detenciones arbitrarias y 145 retenciones ilegales en viviendas.
👉https://t.co/6eGRxYQMLf#SOSCuba #NoALaRepresion pic.twitter.com/caHtdTtRNt— Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos (@observacuba) August 6, 2024
In addition, the Madrid-based organization received 40 complaints related to violations of social rights, most of them linked to the lack of medicines and housing problems. Recently, the OCDH presented the VII study on social rights in Cuba, where it indicated that extreme poverty affects 89% of families.
Speaking to Marti News Yaxis Cires, Director of Strategies at the OCDH, stated: “We are denouncing this situation, as we always do, but we also call on public officials not to contribute to the repression, and we believe that the regime needs to focus on solving the serious problems that the people of the country have, which have to do, mainly, with the growth of poverty, the food shortagemedicines, problems with transportation, water, housing, etc., and not dedicate ourselves to repression.”
The OCDH points out in its report that the repression intensified in the dates close to and during the third anniversary of the historic protests of July 11 and 12, 2021 (11J). “So far this year, July has been the most repressive month. Evidently, the regime deployed a series of repressive actions so that people did not celebrate, or did not remember in some way, the third anniversary of the 2021 protests and, therefore, carried out arbitrary arrests, detentions of activists, opponents and relatives of political prisoners in their homes, and also deployed a series of threats of all kinds,” Cires said in this regard. Marti News.
Also this week The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (ICLEP) reported a total of 101 incidents of rights violations that occurred in July, representing an increase of 165.7% compared to June.
In your monthly reportICLEP highlighted that, since the days leading up to the third anniversary of 11J, the Cuban regime intensified its repression against journalists and activists with the aim of silencing the voices of citizens and preventing the anniversary of the protests from serving to show that the people still have reasons to protest. The repression continued for the July 26during the “celebrations” of the National Day of Rebellion, according to ICLEP.
ICLEP called on the international community to denounce every aggression committed in Cuba against journalists, activists, opponents and citizens who defend a critical view of Cuban reality. It stated: “Under no circumstances can the constant violations of freedom of expression and the press in Cuba, a legitimate right that citizens should have anywhere in the world, be accepted and normalized.”
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