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Protest marchers beaten, detained

“Now that there is no censorship, and the press is completely free, freer than it has ever been, and has also the assurance that it will continue to be free forever, without having censorship here again.” Castro Speech, January 8, 1959.

Since 1959 freedom of the press and information ceased to exist in the island. The regime control and censor newspapers and magazines, radio, television, film industry, and access to the Internet. Independent journalists who send information critical of the regime to other countries are faced with sentences from 3 to 10 years of imprisonment. Their travels abroad are restricted. The regime is the Latin America worse freedom violator, and its laws are the most restrictive laws on freedom of expression and the press.
 
This incident caused the stampede of 10,834 Cubans that fleeing from oppression, voted with their feet entering into the Embassy grounds, after Castro removed the guards protecting the Embassy. The social pressure became so great that Castro on April 20, announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel. Cuban exiles in the U.S. hire boats to go to Cuba and rescue their relatives. A total of 125,000 Cubans fled the island and their arrival on the U.S. created problems for the Carter administration, forcing it to declare a state of emergency on some Florida counties.

The Castro regime released around 5,000 jailed criminals and mentally ill inmates, homosexual and prostitutes, forcing them to leave with the refugees. To validate his action Castro said that the Cubans leaving the island were counter-revolutionaries who needed to be purged because they could never prove productive to the nation. The immigration crisis contributed to Carter losing the election to Ronald Reagan.
 
The regime decree law 370 violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Cuban constitution, which guarantees freedom of thought, conscience and expression in Article 4. The independent reporters are been fined around $120, or with jail, which is overwhelmingly high in relation to the average wage of around $15 per month.

Journalist Mónica Baró was shown dozens of prints of her Facebook posts from the past few months during the interrogation and threatened that the fine would only increase and her behavior could lead to arrest is she continuous posting.
 
Other dissidents continuous to be beating by the Castroit regime political police and denied medical care, a standard operating procedure by the regime, and their lives remain at risk. This is the reason that demand of justice for Juan Wilfredo Soto García shall never be forget.
 
Pedro Luis Boitel a prominent charismatic, anti-communist youth leader in the early days of the Revolution he was seen as a threat to the regime. He was elected president of the Federation of University Students (FEU) at the Havana University. Castro intervened in the student election and remove him from the FEU presidency. Boitel became dissatisfied with political events in Cuba and formed a clandestine organization, The Movement to Recuperate the Revolution (MRR). In 1961 Boitel was detained and accused of conspiracy against the state, and was summarily sentenced to ten years in jail.

A poet and a committed Christian, Boitel refused to accept that prison would break his spirit. The Castroit regime kept him imprisoned even after he had completed his sentence. He began a hunger strike that lasted 53 days and was denied medical assistance, as a result he died at age of 40 on May 25, 1972. He was buried in an unmarked grave. But his spirit leave and he will conquer.
 
José Daniel Ferrer, a human rights defender, former political prisoner, leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, and promoter of Cuba Decide, has been presented with the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom for his tireless work fighting for freedom against Castroit tyrannical regime.

The Castroit regime has beating and torturing Ferrer, harassing and threatening his family and colleagues, and imprisoning him simply for demanding a better life for Cubans. Despite these abuses, Ferrer has persisted and he will prevail.
 
Urquiola is an environmentalist was banned from teaching at the university and became a farmer. In May 2018 he was jail and subjected to cruel and unusual punishment during his imprisonment. According to Frankfurt based International Society for Human rights, there is convincing evidence that he was infected with HIV by Cuban officials during his time in prison.

Urquiola stopped his hunger and thirst strike outside of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights five days after the Council agree to allow him to present his case, allotting him only 90 seconds to do so. The Human Rights Council allowed the rogue states of Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and China interrupted him for 13 minutes in order to silence him.
 
The Castroit tyrannical regime has enslave the Cuban people. How it is possible that this racist and corrupt regime is still part of the Humans Rights council. The same countries that have modern day slavery were interrupting Urquiola constantly did not allow him to finish his statement during the 90 seconds allocated to him by the Council . When he came out of the council, he finish his sentence: “For how long will the Cuban government enjoy impunity for its crimes against humanity?”
 
The countries that are most guilty of violating the human rights of their citizens like Cuba, China, North Korea and Venezuela are on the Human Rights Council of the UN. The Human Rights Council by allowing the delegates of those countries to interrupting and preventing Urquiola from making his statement and letting the hecklers to shut him down, has proved it does not care about free speech. It has failed in its mission. Time to overhaul the Council.
 
Oppenheimer denunciation of the tyrannical communist regime for not issuing visas to Cubans to travel abroad is rightfully so. Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned that the Castroit regime’s policy of prohibiting the departure of its citizens from the island is a serious violation of human rights. The regime treat the Cuban people as if they were their private property. People have the right to leave and come back to their own country period.
 
The Castroit regime especially welcomes U.S. progressives and socialists to Cuba. About 80% of every dollar spent in the “Island of Dr. Castro” by visitors goes to the regime repression machine that keep oppressing the Cuban people.
 
Cuba: Government must release journalist and prisoner of conscience Roberto Quiñones Haces
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Amnesty International is demanding that the Castroit tyrannical regime release independent journalist and lawyer Roberto Quiñones Haces, a prisoner of conscience in the regime gulag. As a lawyer he has been defending members of the opposition and human rights activists. Near a year ago the regime jailed him for doing his journalistic job. This was done in order to frighten independent journalists, but the regime did not achieved its purpose, since they continuous doing their journalistic job.
 
In April 1219 while he was waiting to cover the trial against the pastors who refused to send their children to school and opted for the method of teaching known as homeschooling, the police hit him so hard that they rupture one of his eardrums and has to be taken to the hospital. He was sentenced by the regime kangaroo court to one year in prison, which was enforced on September 11, 2019. Quiñones was released on September 4, 2020 after spending one year in jail. He emerge from prison very skinny where he lost 30 pound from lack of food and mistreatment by the jailers.

 
If this is my last column here, it’s because I’ve been imprisoned in Cuba
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For the last 61 years the tyrannical Castroit regime has been threatened, assaulted, or even killed journalists for providing unfiltered information to the Cuban people. Most likely Enoa will go to jail for speaking out the truth about the human right abuses that occur under the regime. He is a man of great courage. The Cuban people will overcome.
 
U.N. Confirms Human Rights Abuses by U.N. Human Rights Council Member-Elect Cuba
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What a Kafkian nightmare, harassment, intimidation of family and friends, beatings, preventive detention and torture of dissident Daniel Ferrer, a human rights defender, violating his human rights multiple times according to United Nations Human Rights Council.

During his incarceration he suffered “a massive weight loss and the exacerbation of preexisting health conditions.” Despite these abuses, Ferrer has persisted, and the regime has not able to brake his spirit.


Jose Daniel Ferrer after his most recent incarceration by Castro, Inc.
 

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The Castroit regime has been elected to the UN Human Rights Council. This is pure insanity, an affront to human rights. The regime commits all sorts of flagrant crimes against the Cuban people, and on top of that does not allowed in site inspection of the situation by an investigator of the UN. Western nations shall pressure the UNHRC to remove Cuban regime from the council seat.
 
Cuba’s San Isidro Movement: Between Poetry & Death
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According to them, the San Isidro Movement (SIM) is an avant-garde movement with an impact on the protection, promotion and defense of civil and cultural rights in present and future Cuba. On Nov. 6, Denis Solís, a young and rebellious Cuban rapper, a member of San Isidro, after posting a video on social media, during a summary trial without a defense lawyer, was sentenced to eight months of imprisonment for “contempt.”

The response of members of the SIM was to start a sit-in at their headquarters, where they went into a hunger strike, and demands are no longer limited to the release of Solís, but go directly against the widespread state of poverty and sustained lack of civil liberties in the island.
 

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One of the few non-violent ways to be heard in the Castroit regime 61 years paradise is going in a hunger strike as an act of political protest. It is very sad that these hunger strikes have to be used to bring world opinion to bear against the oppression and denial of freedom by the regime and force change.
 
Cuba: San Isidro movement and allies under frightening levels of surveillance
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Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said, “The surveillance and harassment we are seeing is unacceptable under international law as it violates the rights to privacy and in many cases it constitutes a deprivation of liberty, or at least unlawful restriction on freedom of movement. We will continue to monitor this alarming situation.” The Castroit tyrannical regime calls the San Isidro movement an agent of “Yankee imperialism.” The figurehead president Miguel Díaz-Canel, has called MSI “an imperialist reality show to destroy our identity & subjugate us again”, calling for it to be “crushed.”
 
The San Isidro Movement (MSI) began two years ago in Cuba in protest against the state censorship of artistic works. It is a movement by artists and activists demanding greater freedom of expression by the communist regime in control of Cuba government for over six decades. The movement has now become a platform for Cuban dissidents within and outside the island.
 
Cuban Police Committed to Supporting Acts of Repudiation Against Artists
Cuban Police Committed to Supporting Acts of Repudiation Against Artists – Translating Cuba
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The Ministry of Terror is dedicated to mounting, organizing, manufacturing and supporting, all kinds of activities against dissidents and other people who do not comply with the orders of the Castroit regime.
 
Activists mark Human Rights Day in solidarity with Cuban dissidents at Miami’s Freedom Tower
Activists mark Human Rights Day in solidarity with Cuban dissidents at Miami’s Freedom Tower (local10.com)

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Very smart to choose Human Rights Day and have the event in Miami’s Freedom Tower to bring attention to the plight of Cuban dissidents of the San Isidro Movement. The movement began two years ago in protest against the Castroit regime censorship of artistic works. It is a movement by artists and activists demanding greater freedom of expression by the communist regime in control of the government of Cuba for over six decades. The movement has now become a platform for Cuban dissidents within and outside the island.
 
Thousands Protest Across Cuba Demanding The Right To Have Rights
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The human rights situation in Cuba remains terrible in 2021. The Castroit regime Cuba is among the most unfree countries in the world, among others China, Belarus, Laos and North Korea. The regime, bans independent media, suppresses dissent, and severely restricts basic civil liberties. The new generation is raising their voices in opposition to systemic political, civil, economic and social issues affecting their daily lives and demanding changes in the system.
 
Sandokan said:
The Castroit regime Cuba is among the most unfree countries in the world
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That's a myth mostly promoted by American propaganda. In actual reality, when it comes to individual freedoms, the US is less free than Cuba, actually it's one of the least free in the world. It's a fact that can be verified: the US has the largest number of people in prison per capita in the words, and very likely, it's the country with most criminal laws/statues - which drastically limit individual freedoms. That is, you can be imprisoned in the US for far more reasons than in Cuba - which it really means that you have fewer liberties.

Totalitarian propaganda in the US(and some other parts of the West) has used the word "freedom" in a very misleading way - the words itself refers to freedom in general(and that's what the "audience" tends to understand), while the US establishment actually only partially "cares" about "political freedom", never about "personal freedoms" - under the terribly false guise that political freedom lets you "vote" for personal freedoms - in actual reality it doesn't work, all democracies worldwide are on a sure path of totalitarianism, the system generating an ever increasing number of laws which limit more and more freedoms every day! So the irony is that democracy leads to totalitarianism and fewer and fewer freedoms(part of the reason is that the average individual is too stupid to understand what is going on, and naturally paranoid, thus inclined to accept more and more stupid and abusive laws and to give more power and less responsibility to the state, in the hope of illusory "safety" - most "threats" being themselves illusory)
 
Nilhus said:
That's a myth mostly promoted by American propaganda. In actual reality, when it comes to individual freedoms, the US is less free than Cuba, actually it's one of the least free in the world. It's a fact that can be verified:
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“It's a fact that can be verified: blah-blah-blah.” What are you smoking man? What a total pile of crap. Get off your cloud. People born in a cage think flying is an illness.
 
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