Havana/Like every year, Cuba spent International Human Rights Day this Wednesday with police operations, internet cuts and house arrests against activists and independent journalists. The regime once again deployed its ability to silence any civic gesture.
The Editorial of 14ymedio In Havana, it woke up without web browsing service and with a police operation on the ground floor of the building where it is located in the Nuevo Vedado neighborhood. The repression has also extended to other journalists such as Boris González Arenas, held in his home under the gaze of State Security. “This Government only has the energy to repress the people it is starving to death,” he denounced. Juliette Fernandez Estrada on Facebook.
The activist Yamilka Lafita, known as Lara Crofs, story that a man who introduced himself as “chief of the Eduardo combatants,” accompanied by two police officers, arrived at his home to warn him that he could not leave. “They say ‘for the reason I know’,” he wrote on his networks. “My door may be guarded, but my voice is not silenced,” he said, and dedicated the day to the Cuban people, the political prisoners and their families.
Cuba spent International Human Rights Day with police operations, internet cuts and house arrests against activists and independent journalists
Wilber Aguilar, father of the political prisoner Walnier Aguilaralso reported a police cordon in front of his home. “I have patrol car 241 parked here. I can’t go out, I can’t move from my house,” he said. “Everyone in my house suffered from the virus, practically dying, and not a single doctor showed up, but today the State Security agents came.” With bitterness, the father of the young man convicted of participating in the 11J protests summarized: “We live in a country where human rights do not exist, nor humans with rights.”
In the Havana municipality of Lawton, the leader of the Ladies in White, Berta Soler, warned about strong surveillance against her and her husband, Ángel Moya Acosta, as well as against the movement’s headquarters. As he explained, neighbors have reported that several patrols surround the area. The operation is located on the corner of Martínez and D streets. “The State Security repressors began early with the repressive deployment,” he denounced.
The human rights crisis on the Island, recalled from the Cuba X Cuba project, is not limited to political prisoners or those facing arbitrary trials. “It also affects millions of people condemned to live in undignified conditions,” they noted. “Twenty-hour blackouts, lack of medicines, food shortages, collapsed basic services, growing insecurity and a health crisis make up a landscape where survival is an act of resistance.” On this Human Rights Day, the organization renewed its commitment “to dignity and freedom, to those who remain imprisoned, to those who wait for non-existent medicine or survive in the dark, or see how their neighborhood, their school, their hospital and their future deteriorate.”
Cubans abroad called for marches and protests around the world to make visible the precarious human rights situation on the island.
Cubans abroad took advantage of the date to call for marches and protests around the world with the aim of making visible the precarious human rights situation on the island. The opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia He called for a global day for human rights and freedom in Cuba.
Various actions were called in at least 13 cities, including protests, walks, rallies and symbolic acts, in countries such as Spain, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Chile, France and the United States.
In Berlin, a group of people from Cuban civil society was received by German government authorities, “for the first time in history,” according to activist Tania Tasé from her profile Las Taniadas. “We are going to do the best we can, for all Cubans,” he said moments before the meeting.
From Barcelona, a group of emigrants gathered in the streets to denounce the Cuban dictatorship. In videos published on the profile of the Coalition of Women x Cuba Libre The interventions of the participants are shown on topics such as the serious health and food crisis that the country is suffering, political prisoners and the total lack of rights that Cubans face.
In Madridthe protest of the exiles took place in front of the Cuban embassy, and was broadcast by the Transition Council in Cuba and the magazine Alas Tensas.
