RIGHTS RAPPORTEURS IN CUBA CONTINUES
04-08-2010.
Odalys Sanabria Rodríguez
(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- Havana, Cuba / August 2010
Once more, State Security officials of the Cuban government attacked
members of the Information Center of the Council of Human Rights
Rapporteurs in Cuba on July 31, 2010.
Juan Carlos González Leiva, executive secretary of this NGO stated:
Since the afternoon of August 1, 2010, our telephone service was
interrupted once again and it has not been restored yet. Just minutes
after this happened the wife of a delegate of the National Assembly of
People's Power appeared in our center and told us that Sergio Diaz
Larrastegui, the blind owner of our dwelling, was summoned by
authorities. These are the continous acts of terror by the Cuban
government so that Díaz Larrastegui is forced to evicts us from his home.
On July 31, 2010, agents of the political police violently assaulted the
car in which we traveled: Tania Maceda Guerra, Lázara Bárbara Cendiña
Recarde, Hugo Damián Prieto Blanco, Carlos Alexánder Borrero Galardi and
myself, Juan Carlos González Leiva. Without identifying themselves,
military officials in plainclothes suddenly intercepted our car and
forced Hugo Damián Prieto to get off and, as he did, he was kicked and
punched.
The rest of us followed the political police in spite of the fact that
they threatened to destroy our car and to imprison us as they drove off,
taking Hugo Damián away. After a relentless persecution, they stopped
and arrested us all. Galardi, the driver, was handcuffed, and beaten as
he was dragged off. Maceda, Recarde and myself were taken to the
detention center of Villa Marista and, without getting us off their Lada
automobile we were locked in the car during an hour of intense and
suffocating heat. After two hours we were released.
The beatings continued against Hugo Damián Prieto Blanco who remained in
a dungeon during 28 hours.
On Thursday, July 15, 2010, the Council of Human Rights Rapporteurs in
Cuba made an urgent call to the international community due to the
repression Cuban State Security is subjecting them to and urgently calls
upon world solidarity once more. This NGO is making the Cuban government
responsible for their physical well-being."
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