Hernández said he was charged—after shouting “Down with Raul Castro!”—and fined for “contempt for the figure of the maximum leader.” The Carrillos were released the same day.On August 3, dissident José Daniel Ferrer, who founded the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) in 2011—upon his release from eight years in prison—was arrested along with activist Ebert Hidalgo and charged with “attempted murder” when the car he was driving struck a Ministry of Interior official. Stay on top of Cuba's biggest stories by Al Jazeera. Cardet, who had been threatened with jail because of his support for the “One Cuban, One Vote” campaign, was sentenced to three years in prison on March 2017. I have not seen anything from the Cuban Church that would justify allowing the police to enter the Church when no lives were at risk, and no one had been hurt.” Calzón said he regards Cardinal Jaime Ortega’s recent involvement in negotiations with the government on behalf of political prisoners, which resulted in their release but also their permanent exile from the island, an “abomination.” He also complained that Ortega had recently offered mass for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, but has ignored requests for masses for dissident victims of the regime. While the law technically allows the formation of independent unions, in practice Cuba only permits one confederation of state-controlled unions, the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba.The Cuban government still refuses to recognize human rights monitoring as a legitimate activity and denies legal status to local human rights groups. Those who hire or make payments to artists for artistic services which lacked proper authorization are subject to sanctions, as are the artists themselves. Cuba’s communist leader, who outlasted ten American presidents, has died at the age of 90 Timeline: Fidel Castro, 1926-2016 Nov 26th 2016, 8:58 from Graphic detail blog
But he is ignoring the huge human rights violations that are a daily occurrence. As Derya M. Little so lucidly explains: “Even though Turkish feminists believe that progressivism and secularism will be the savior…
Conflict, and Smiles, as U.S. and Cuba Discuss Ties . It is called a dictatorship.”In January 2018, the foreign policy chief of the European Union met in Havana with Cuban authorities to accelerate the implementation of their Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement. “Today it is evident that Marxist ideology as it was conceived no longer corresponds to reality,” he said, adding that Cubans must “find new models, with patience and in a constructive way.” The Church, said Benedict, wishes “to help in the spirit of dialog to avoid trauma and to help bring about a just and fraternal society.” “It’s necessary for him to listen to marginalized people so that he can know the reality of the current situation of the people of Cuba, and so we can have the hope that the government might improve regarding human rights,” she added. The number of arbitrary short-term detentions, which increased dramatically between 2010 and 2016—from a monthly average of 172 incidents to 827—started to drop in 2017, according to the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, an independent human rights group that the government considers illegal.The number of reports of arbitrary detentions continued to drop in 2018, with 2,024 from January through August, a decrease of 45 percent compared to the 3,706 reports during the same period in 2017.Security officers rarely present arrest orders to justify detaining critics. Seeking to take advantage of the publicity surrounding the pope’s visit, a group calling itself the Republican Party of Cuba occupied several churches in the dioceses of Havana and Holguín on March 13. Cuban dissidents ask Benedict XVI to take up their cause as papal visit approaches In recent days, Lech Walesa, the former leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement that toppled the communist regime in 1989, as well as Cuban-American congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, have joined Cuban dissident groups to ask the pope to speak out against human rights abuses by the island’s communist government during his upcoming trip. I urge the Catholic Church to express its support and solidarity with the internal peaceful opposition and hear the voices of the dissidents who are yearning for freedom.” The Holy See’s Secretary of State, Tarcicio Bretone, has thus far responded by seeking to assure the public that the pope will speak to the political conditions on the island and “help the process towards democracy, and open new spaces for the presence and activity (of the Church).” “I don’t believe that the visit will be exploited by the government,” Bertone told the Italian daily As he flew to Mexico for the first leg of his trip, Pope Benedict made a stronger statement in response to a reporter’s question about persecution of dissidents leading up to the pontiff’s visit. The government routinely blocks access within Cuba to these websites, and only a fraction of Cubans can read independent websites and blogs because of the high cost of, and limited access to, the internet. By Randal C. Archibold. The journalists are held incommunicado, as are artists and academics who demand greater freedoms. Those who criticize the government or engage in hunger strikes and other forms of protest often endure extended solitary confinement, beatings, and restrictions on family visits, and are denied medical care.While the government allowed select members of the foreign press to conduct controlled visits to a handful of prisons in 2013, it continues to deny international human rights groups and independent Cuban organizations access to its prisons.On August 9, Alejandro Pupo Echemendía died in police custody at Placetas, Villa Clara, while under investigation for a crime related to horse racing.
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