Brutal repression and increased arrests highlight 2011 Cuba

Brutal repression and increased arrests highlight 2011 Cuba

Democracia Participativa 14 de Enero de 2012
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Havana, Jan.10.─ The independent news agency Centro de Informacion Hablemos Press http://www.cihpress.com/2012/01/informe-mensual-de-violaciones-de-los.html in Cuba documented 3,835 political arrests in its 2011 report on human rights violations in the island: h.

Tabla de arrestos por motivos políticos 2011

Mes Cantidad de arrestos por meses Acumulado Total
Enero 181  
Febrero 440 621
Marzo 227 848
Abril 271 1119
Mayo 274 1393
Junio 205 1598
Julio 266 1864
Agosto 318 2182
Septiembre 486 2668
Octubre 354 3022
Noviembre 237 3259
Diciembre 576 3835

The Lady in White, Ivonne Malleza Galano, her husband, Ignacio Martinez Montejo, and a Cuban woman, Isabel Haydee Alvarez remain confined in maximum security prisons without formal charges. All three were violently arrested on November 30, 2011, following a peaceful protest in the Fraternidad Park in central Havana.

The Lady in White, Caridad Caballero Batista denounced from her hometown in Holguin in Eastern Cuba, that the pardons of more than 2,900 Cuban prisoners announced by Raul Castro are a "farce and a manipulation of the regime", "Those who have been released are highly dangerous inmates, they are people who have murdered, raped; who are truly delinquent, and who will be used to repress the dissidents." Caballero Batista received phone calls from countless prisons in Cuba from political prisoners who wanted to denounce their cases, many who have already served their unjust sentences. Of those 2,900 who were supposedly released, there are, at least, five political prisoners, according to Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz, of the Comisión Cubana de Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional (CCDHRN) in Havana.

Berta Soler, leader of the "Ladies in White Laura Pollan" denounced an increase in the regime’s violent methods of intimidation and harrassment against members of this peaceful femenine human rights movement throughout the island.

Below are some of the human rights violations reported from the island since January 1, 2012:

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