Denuncias / Reports

PRESS RELEASE, 27 January 2014

The Cuban authorities must halt their campaign of repression against opponents and dissidents and allow peaceful activities to take place during the second summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Amnesty International said today.

The meeting will be held on 28 and 29 January in Havana.

“The attitude of the Cuban authorities is an outrageous attack on freedom of expression and assembly which should not go unnoticed by the many leaders now gathering in Havana,” Amnesty International’s Special Advisor for Regional Programmes, Javier Zúñiga, said.

“It is a futile attempt to silence those who speak out about the systematic violation of the rights to freedom of expression, assembly and demonstration in Cuba. The government may stop dissidents from getting near the conference but their voices will get through. There is nothing that can silence human rights.”

Last weekend in many parts of the island dozens of dissidents were arbitrarily detained or pressurized not to participate in private events scheduled to run parallel to the summit which begins tomorrow in Havana.

The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN, Comisión Cubana de Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional) has recorded 43 cases of people held for short periods between 23 and 26 January. Another five have been put under house arrest. At least 18 were warned by the authorities not to travel to Havana.  

As a result of these arrests and the wave of intimidation, various meetings that were due to be held in parallel to the summit have been cancelled.

More than half of those reported killings (1,213) occurred in Syria, followed by Nigeria (612) and Pakistan (88). But North Korea remained the most dangerous country worldwide for Christians 

Jan.10.─ Rev. Faye Pama Musa knew immediately why suspected Boko Haram militants burst into his home last year as his wife prepared dinner in the family’s northeastern Nigeria home. His stance against Christian persecution in the divided African nation had long made him a target.

Musa, who served as the general overseer of the Rhema Assembly International Church and secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Borno, saw the intruders near the front door of his home in Maiduguri as his wife, Mercy, prepped food. One of the couple’s daughters, Zion, had spotted the armed men just seconds earlier jumping a fence.

 Seoul, Nov. 11.─ North Korea has publicly executed 80 people across seven cities for watching South Korean television shows, according to inside sources.

An unidentified source "familiar" with North Korean internal affairs told the conservative South Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo that the simultaneous executions took place on 3 November.

If confirmed, these are the first large-scale public executions under Kim Jong-un.

The report said the North Koreans were charged with relatively minor offences such as watching smuggled South Korean shows and pornography.

Dr. René López Benítez  

Miembros de la Sociedad Civil Independiente, Opositores al Gobierno, denunciaron en el curso del mes de agosto acciones de detenciones ejecutadas por la Seguridad del Estado y por otras fuerzas del Ministerio del Interior, con el fin de impedir la asistencia a eventos contestatarios pacíficos, a estas personas no se les instruyen de cargos,  ni son trasladados a las Unidades de la Policía Nacional Revolucionaria para que quede sustanciada la detención, la acción se concreta una vez impedidos de asistir a las convocatorias,  quedan abandonados  en lugares distantes de la capital, sin acceso a medios de transporte que les permita en un tiempo prudencial  el  regreso  a sus domicilios.

La Ley No. 5, Ley de Procedimiento Penal de 13 de agosto de 1977, establece según el Título IV “De la detención y aseguramiento del imputado” Capítulo I, “De la detención” del  artículos 241 al 244, ambos inclusive y Capítulo II, “Del aseguramiento del acusado”, del artículo 245 al 60, ambos inclusive, las formalidades para ejecutar una detención, las que en ningún caso de avienen a lo que operan contra los disidentes al oficialismo.