NGO factors out that Cuba has extra than 1000 political prisoners

The human rights employer Prisoners Defenders (PD) launched this Tuesday (12) its monthly report, for the month of August, in which it discovered that the Cuban communist regime, led via dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel, currently holds 1,0.5 political prisoners in their prisons.

According to the corporation, inside this contingent, there are not only person political prisoners. The document talked about that presently 36 minors, arbitrarily detained, also face the harsh reality of the island’s jail system on a day by day basis.

Prisoners Defenders pointed out that in the final six months 91 new political prisoners have been incarcerated in Cuba, a median of 15 prisoners in line with month. This well-knownshows a worrying trend of advancing repression towards those who dare to specific critiques contrary to the communist regime that guidelines the united states of america.

Of the 36 minors at the list of Cuban political prisoners, 32 are boys and 4 are girls. Of those, 31 are already serving sentences, even as 5 are currently dealing with crook court cases.

Prisoners Defenders denounced the precarious situations wherein these political prisoners currently find themselves, highlighting that many of them face convictions and regulations on their freedom imposed by way of public prosecutors with out judicial supervision or good enough prison protection, flagrantly violating worldwide regulation.

The report also discovered the business enterprise’s worries approximately the participation of Cuban citizens within the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Prisoners Defenders said it is “glaring that the Cuban regime has supported Russia inside the battle in Ukraine” and mentioned that Cuban kingdom media outlets have propagated the Russian authorities’s narrative, actively assisting the Eurasian united states of america’s nation media stores such as RT and Sputnik.

Furthermore, the corporation talked about that the Cuban regime has stood out as one of the most energetic in seeking to prevent specific condemnations of Vladimir Putin’s government, both on the United Nations and in other worldwide forums, which includes the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. (Celac).

“Miguel Díaz-Canel traveled to Russia in 2022 and publicly congratulated Russia at the annexations in Donbass. Furthermore, in worldwide businesses, (Cuba) has been the most energetic united states of america in stopping specific condemnation of the Putin regime, each on the United Nations and in other forums which include CELAC, where it has controlled to weaken any condemnation of the ‘invasion’ or difference among the aggressor and the attacked in this war,” the agency wrote on its website.