(EFE) .- The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) announced this Tuesday that it has denounced to the UN the situation of the 39 children under 21 years of age “imprisoned in Cuba for peacefully protesting.”
The Madrid-based organization explained in a statement that it presented two briefs, of almost a hundred pages, before the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
The complaints request that “the corresponding special procedures” be initiated in the face of the “type of repression that is demonstrated” and “the nature of the victims” is highlighted.
According to documentation compiled by the NGO, 39 Cubans under the age of 21 “are in” provisional prison “as a result of the July 11 protests and are” awaiting ratification of sentences of up to 23 years of deprivation of liberty. “.
Of these, 11 have been charged with an alleged crime of sedition, foreseen and sanctioned in article 100 of the Penal Code, whose sanctioning framework foresees sentences of between 10 and 20 years
Of these, 11 have been charged with an alleged crime of sedition, foreseen and sanctioned in article 100 of the Penal Code, whose sanctioning framework foresees sentences of between 10 and 20 years, or even the death penalty.
Furthermore, “dozens of other” minors under the age of 21 are indicted or awaiting “arbitrary trials to go to jail” because the authorities have not allowed their defense and a total of 107 minors, adolescents and young people are “in a state of defenseless “and continue to face” criminal measures “for exercising their rights, according to the complaint.
The OCDH highlights the cases of four adolescents between 14 and 15 years of age who weigh “internment” measures adopted “without due process.” Also the “police actions” against 43 adolescents between 14 and 17 years old.
“The arrests and processes that are held against hundreds of girls, boys, adolescents and / or young protesters must be declared arbitrary and in their favor urgent requests for freedom and reparation are needed,” the OCDH demands.
The NGO affirms that the Convention on the Rights of the Child is not implemented in Cuba, nor is the UN system of rules for the protection of the child alleged perpetrator of crime.
The complaints call for the activation of other United Nations special procedures and point to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for human rights defenders.
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