Cuba Human Rights: After last banishment of political prisoners, more remain in Cuba

Saturday, April 9, 2011

After last banishment of political prisoners, more remain in Cuba

After last banishment of political prisoners, more remain in Cuba
By Alberto de la Cruz on 04/09/2011 – 5:32 am PDT

The last of the Cuban political prisoners banished from Cuba that Spain
was willing to take may have arrived in Madrid earlier this week, but
there are still more political prisoners being held by Cuba's brutal and
merciless totalitarian dictatorship.

Havana – Members of the Cuban opposition expressed regret Friday at
Spain's announcement that the process of releasing prisoners in Cuba
that began last year has come to an end, because they believe there are
still some 50 political prisoners behind bars on the island.

The spokesman for the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National
Reconciliation, Elizardo Sanchez, said that the end of the process begun
July 2010 by the Cuban government with the mediation of the Catholic
Church and the support of Spain "is very bad news."

"There are at least 50 well-documented cases of people in prison
for political reasons, many of them the most hated by the Castro regime,
so naturally they're the most vulnerable," Sanchez told Efe.

Uncommon Sense has the list of names for the last 37 political prisoners
banished from Cuba and forced into exile in Spain:

The final 37 Cuba ex-political prisoners to be banished to Spain

The Spanish government announced Friday that with the arrival of 37
former Cuban political prisoners and their families, the process of
prisoner releases is over.

Which means Madrid can get back to the business of doing what's
best for its business in Cuba, and screw the Cuban people.

Penultimos Dias has the list of names of the newly banished exiles
— some of which had already been reported – pending final verification.
They are:

Orlando Fundora
Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina
Alberto Santiago du Bouchet
Carlos Luis Días Fernández
Armando Alcántara Clavijo
Ricardo Galván Casals
Agustín Cervantes García
Lázaro Alejandro García Farah
Juan Luis Rodríguez Desbin
Luis Mariano Delis Utria
Luis Campos Corrales
Orestes Paino Viera
Pável Hernández Manfarroll
Douglas Faxas Rosabal
Fidel Francisco Rangel Sánchez
Osvel Valle Hernández
Yoel Rodríguez Izquierdo
Lázaro Ricardo Chacón Ordoñez
Maikel Pedroso Bocourt
Daviel Gaenza Leiva
Jorge Luis Adán González
Emilio Pérez Díaz
Juan Ramón Rivero Despaigne
Luis Cano Chávez
René Amor González
Randel Roca Mursuli
Antonio Rodríguez
José Manuel de la Rosa Pérez
Juan Carlos Vásquez García
Arnaldo Marquez Gil
Antonio García Reyes
Leobany Zulueta Ramos
Roberto Calaña López Rodríguez
José Sardina Martin
Eduardo Díaz Castellano
Randy Cabrera Mayor