Who killed Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá?

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CUBABRIEF: THE FAILURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION'S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CASTRO REGIME AND ITS WIDER MEANING FOR EUROPE
CubaBrief: The failure of the European Union's engagement with the Castro regime and its wider meaning for Europe — Center for a FREE Cuba

October 5, 2019

The European Union (EU) and the Castro regime elevated whataboutism to the level of international agreements. The European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Union's diplomatic service's press release on the EU - Cuba human rights dialogue that was held on October 3, 2019 requires a suspension of disbelief to read it. The second sentence in the first paragraph states, "the dialogue provides a structured framework to discuss openly and in a constructive way the human rights situation in both Cuba and the EU and a platform to explore cooperation in multilateral fora on shared human rights challenges."

The EEAS press release also claimed that it "was preceded by a civil society seminar on 2 October, where representatives of Cuban and European civil society exchanged views in particular on the topics of combatting gender-based violence and on the protection of families."

This claim of the EEAS was contradicted by the Sweden based Civil Rights Defenders, a respected human rights organization that was founded in 1982 that over social media on October 2, 2019 reported: "Right now, a human rights dialogue between EU and Cuba is taking place in Brussels. All attending are approved by the Cuban gov, no independent civil society organisations present. Manuel Cuesta Morúa is going to Brussels despite not being invited."

Rosa María Payá in an open letter published by Civil Rights Defenders warned that "the position of the EEAS, combined with the fact that European governments abandoned their previous position, the EU Common Position on Cuba [brought into force] in 1996, that condemned human rights violations, demanded democratic reforms in Cuba and kept their embassies on the island open to opposition activists and members of independent civil society, but that [today's position] is used by the Cuban government to try to legitimize its actions."
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The Castroit regime prevented the participation of members and organizations of the civil society of the European Union and Cuba, which were not approve by the regime, to participate in the seminar. The E.U. abandoned its previous position of condemn the violations of human rights, to demand democratic reforms in Cuba and maintained its embassies in the island opened to the opposition and the independent civil society. The E.U. action is in contradiction with the values it promote, it has betrayed those values. Shame on the E.U.

 

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Rosa María Payá, daughter of Oswaldo Payá the 2002 Sakharov Laureate and promoters of the initiative Cuba Decide are calling on the European Union to once again do the right thing in Cuba. In 2005, the Ladies in White were awarded the Sakharov Prize while campaigning for the release of Cuban prisoners of conscience.

Oswaldo Payá receiving the Sakharov Prize

The E.U. under the previous policy recognized their efforts and defended human rights in Cuba. Nowadays the E.U. honor Karl Mark and unveil statue of him. A 180 degrees change, going in the wrong direction not supporting the values it claimed to defend.

 

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Sen. Cruz Meets with Cuban Dissident Rosa María Payá on National Victims of Communism Day
Sen. Cruz Meets with Cuban Dissident Rosa Maria Paya on National Victims of Communism Day | Ted Cruz | U.S. Senator for Texas
November 7, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the son of a Cuban political prisoner, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has led efforts to expose oppressive regimes and advocate on behalf of political dissidents yearning for freedom across the globe. Today, on National Victims of Communism Day, Sen. Cruz met with Cuban political dissident Rosa María Payá to denounce the evils of communism and call for freedom and democracy to be restored to Cuba.

Earlier this week, Sen. Cruz released a video titled, "The Power of American Principles," in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, when democracy and freedom prevailed over the brutal tyranny of communism.

Watch Sen. Cruz and Rosa María Payá's full video message here , and read the full transcript below.
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Cubans shall be proud of Rosa María Payá. Her endless fighting for those who suffer under the Castroit Communist regime is worthy of praise and support. She took up most of her father Oswaldo Payá activist work, after he was killed by the Castroit regime.

 

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The Cuban government attacks its most notable political prisoner in unusual editorial
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By Nora Gámez Torres
November 20, 2019

Amid an international campaign for the release of a dissident, Granma, Cuba´s Communist Party newspaper, dedicated an unusual editorial on Wednesday to attacking the country’s best-known political prisoner, José Daniel Ferrer, and the U.S. Embassy in Havana.

Under the governments of Fidel and Raúl Castro and their current successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel, the names of very few dissidents and members of the opposition have ever appeared on state media, an attempt to deprive them of public visibility. But the intense international campaign, with calls from Amnesty International, regional organizations and politicians from several countries to release Ferrer, seems to have forced the government to respond with accusations of its own directed against a frequent target: the United States.

Granma accused the U.S. of leading “a new slander and discredit campaign against Cuba,” using “the arrest of the counterrevolutionary José Daniel Ferrer” as a pretext. The unsigned editorial said Ferrer was “a salaried agent serving the United States, with a long history of provocative actions against public order and legality.”
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Rosa Maria Payá, promoter of Cuba Decide and UNPACO, has said that dictatorship of Raúl Castro and Díaz-Canel have not been able to silence the voices of support for José Daniel Ferrer, as have been proved by the international organizations that have asked for his immediately release.

 

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The Castroit tyrannical regime is extremely worry by the international campaign for the release of the dissident José Daniel Ferrer. It had mounted a political campaign to discredit and damage his reputation and justify his imprisoning for over a month without charges. In the meantime it is severely punishing Ferrer in prison to get rid of him one way or another.

 

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World listens to free Cubans: Oswaldo Payá addressed the European Parliament on this day in 2002
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: World listens to free Cubans: Oswaldo Paya addressed the European Parliament on this day in 2002

"17 years since the historic speech of Oswaldo Payá, National Coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement, in the European parliament upon being recognized with the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights for his efforts to achieve unity." - Regis Iglesias Ramirez, over Twitter on December 17, 2019

Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas and Pat Cox, European Parliament President

The visit of the Spanish monarchs to Cuba in 2019 and the Spanish Prime Minister's visit to the island in 2018 were both regrettable for the cause of Cuban freedom. They embraced the dictatorship and refused to meet with Cuban dissidents. The Spanish King gave advice to the regime promoting human rights, but also sat down with Raul Castro, in what amounted to a recognition of the Castro dynasty that continues to rule Cuba. It is important to remember that the Spanish monarchy is subject to the maximum political authority in Spain which is the Prime Minister, who is a Socialist, and behind the drive to improve relations with the Castro regime.

This is a far cry from 17 years ago when another Spanish Prime Minister demonstrated his solidarity with Cuban democrats by meeting with Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas and supporting his nomination for the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights.
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The human rights abuses of the Cuban people by the Castroit regime have been documented by the UN, the European Union, human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and many other organizations all over the world.

 

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Remembering Cuban martyr and dissident Harold Cepero on what would have been his 40th birthday
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Remembering Cuban martyr and dissident Harold Cepero on what would have been his 40th birthday

"Whoever destroys a single life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world, and whoever saves a single life is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world." - Mishnah (1135-1204)

Harold Cepero Escalante

POSTED BY JOHN SUAREZ January 29, 2020

Harold Cepero Escalante was born in Ciego de Avila on January 29, 1980 and was murdered by the Cuban dictatorship together with Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas in Bayamo, Granma on July 22, 2012. Harold was a member of the Christian Liberation Movement and a youth leader. Harold understood that those who engaged in repression were also not free stating "[t]hose who remove and crush freedom are the real slaves."

Today would have been his 40th birthday, but thanks to the Castro regime's secret police his life was ended eight years ago at the age of 32.

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Harold understood the dangers of advocating for freedom in Cuba under the Castro dictatorship. In 2012, shortly before his death he explained the cost of resistance: "Christians and non-Christians who have the courage and the freedom to consider the peaceful political option for their lives, know they are exposing themselves to slightly less than absolute solitude, to work exclusion, to persecution, to prison or death."

This courageous young man is remembered and the demand for justice continues.[/QUOTE] Harold Cepero was driven by three fundamental values: compassion for the persecuted and the needy; a thirst for the truth; and an ability to forgive those who had mistreated him. His activism took the form of working on the Varela Project, a citizen petition movement calling for a popular referendum to establish the foundation for a democratic system in Cuba. He risked his life for pursuing freedom for all Cubans.

 

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Democracy activists in Cuba report ongoing repression
Democracy activists in Cuba report ongoing repression

Havana, Cuba, Jan 30, 2020 / 04:50 pm (CNA).- A pro-democracy group in Cuba says its members are continuing to experience repression and harassment from police and government officials under the presidency of Miguel Díaz-Canel.

Eduardo Cardet, the national coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement (CLM), says he was blocked Jan. 25 from traveling to the United States from Cuba, despite having his recently renewed passport and the appropriate visa.

According to the CLM, an immigration official at the Havana airport told Cardet he was prohibited from traveling. Asked why, the official reportedly told Cardet that “he ought to know the reason” and gave no further details.

Cardet was arrested Nov. 30, 2016, outside his home on charges of attacking law enforcement, scandal, and disorderly conduct. He was sentenced to three years in prison in 2017. The CLM contends, however, that the real reason for Cardet's arrest was his criticism of the legacy of Fidel Castro and for his pro-democracy activism.

Cardet was released from prison under certain conditions in May 2019 and completed his sentence in September that year.
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Another attack on the Christian Liberation Movement. Eduardo Cardet was told by the State Security of the Castroit regime “that the development of his organization was prohibited”, and that the regime would have “no tolerance for the opposition.” It violated his right to travel in a selective and premeditated way. The regime has a total disregard for human’s rights whatsoever. This communist regime rule by terror in the island and foments violence abroad, is known for its killings of opponents like Laura Pollan, founder of Ladies in White and Oswaldo Pay, founder of the Christian Liberation Movement. The Castroit tyrannical regime has always been a diabolical and Machiavellian one.

 

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Project Varela: Looking back at the nonviolent campaign 18 years later
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: May 2020

The nonviolent campaign that shook up the dictatorship in Cuba, changed the Cuban Communist Constitution and continues to haunt the Castro regime.

Posted by John Suarez
May 10, 2020

Oswaldo Payá Antonio Diaz, and Regis Iglesias after turning in signatures

18 years ago today, carrying 11,020 signed petitions in support of the Varela Project, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, Antonio Diaz Sanchez, and Regis Iglesias Ramírez walked with the bulky card board boxes labeled Project Varela turning them into the Cuban National Assembly.

The national coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement, Eduardo Cardet, issued a statement on the 18th anniversary of these petitions being presented.
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The Varela project is named after Father Felix Varela, a leading educator, philosopher and patriot of the 19th century. The project contains a draft of the first legal steps that would help the inhabitants of Cuba participate freely and responsively in the political and economic life of Cuban society.

The Varela Project, 18 years ago delivered 11,020 signatures into the Cuban National Assembly seeking greater freedom. Payá said it was ““a citizens’ movement for peaceful change.” The response of the Castroit regime was the Black Spring in 2003, where about 75 of Mr. Payá’s supporters were rounded up and imprisoned, including 29 dissidents’ journalists, and sentenced them to long prison terms.

On July 22, 2012, Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero were killed in a car accident. The “accidental” death of Oswaldo and Cepero, is a classic case of state murder. This is a criminal state where its security apparatus is running wild. After 61 years of the brutal Castroit tyrannical military regime, the Cuban people soul is still alive and well, and their desire for freedom couldn’t be eradicated. In a near future they will break the chains of slavery of the evil Castro brothers’ monstrous regime and be free again.

 

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Rosa María Payá meets with the constitutional president of Bolivia
Rosa Maria Paya meets with the constitutional president of Bolivia - Cuba Decide

On January 20, 2020, Rosa María Payá, promoter of Cuba Decide, met with Bolivia’s constitutional president, Jeanine Añez, to discuss “regional solidarity to rescue democracy” and thanked her for denouncing “the criminal interference of Castroism” in Bolivia.

She also met with Bolivia’s presidential delegate to the international community, Jorge Quiroga, who joined the call to demand Ferrer’s freedom. “On behalf of all the democrats in Bolivia, we demand the release of Ferrer. A worthy man, who fights for democracy and is subjected to the torture and adoment of the castrist dictatorship,” the former Bolivian president denounced.

Video with Bolivia’s Jorge Quiroga:

On March 2, Rosa María Payá, promoter of Cuba Decide, held a formal meeting with the Vice President of Paraguay Hugo Velázquez, who assured her that country firmly maintains their position as a defender of democracy in the Americas. Thereafter, Ms. Payá met with the Paraguayan Foreign Minister to denounce Cuban interference in the internal affairs of countries such as Bolivia, Chile and Colombia.

Oswaldo Payá was murdered by the Castroit regime because he dared to believe his country could be free from the grip of communism. Today, his daughter Rosa María, staunch supporter of democracy and freedom, keeps battling to bring democracy to Cuba.

 

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UN investigation about Oswaldo Payá's unclarified death
Petition * Investigacion ONU (UN investigation) sobre muerte no aclarada de Oswaldo Paya * Change.org

Mrs. MICHELLE BACHELET
High Commissioner for Human Rights. United Nations
Geneva, Switzerland
InfoDesk@ohchr.org, Registry@ohchr.org
Subject: Oswaldo Payá case

I have the honor of addressing you, first of all to congratulate and wish you the greatest success in defending the Human Rights of the citizens of the world, and I also present the case of my brother Oswaldo Payá.

My brother Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas, was one of the most important political leaders of Cuba in recent years, founder of the well-known Project Varela and the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) with the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The activism of my brother Oswaldo Payá was always framed in the Defense of Human Rights, Democracy and dialogue as instruments to improve the living conditions of the Cuban people, in such activities in the alleged exercise of their Civil Rights, he assumed critical positions to the Cuban government, which generated persecutions and threats of various kinds, and unfortunately died (as did Harold Cepero, a young MCL activist) in circumstances not yet clarified on July 22, 2012 in the province of Granma (Cuba) allegedly as a result of a “car accident,” according to public information from the authorities of the State of Cuba.

None of the members of our family have had access to the file made by police and judicial authorities related to the death of Oswaldo. We do not know the real cause of his death according to the content of the forensic autopsy protocol, the details of the event site and other evidence collected and analyzed during the criminal process, or if other cars intervened during the event.

During the development of the process, the family was not allowed to attend the hearings of the trial, nor to incorporate the evidence that we have to clarify the facts, and even less, to have the intervention of legal advisers and forensic experts that represent the rights and family interests as indirect victims. Such restrictions generate serious doubts regarding the objectivity and impartiality of the authorities involved in the case. Such opacity has been the mechanism of injustice.

Our right to due process has been violated and consequently our right to the truth. Time has elapsed and we have to live with the fixed idea of the various existing hypotheses of the cause of Oswaldo's death and the inconsistencies and contradictions of the official version.I beg you, honorable High Commissioner, to intercede with the State of Cuba to ensure that the family can access the procedural records, evidence of the case and, in the same way, conduct a transparent, objective and impartial investigation of the facts and circumstances, involving international experts and experts appointed by the family. This would be the only way to get to the truth through suitable and reliable legal channels.

Sincerely,
CARLOS PAYÁ SARDIÑAS

Hope this claim of justice for the investigation of Oswaldo Payá death will not fall on deaf ears. Payá paid the ultimate price for his nonviolent struggle for a free Cuba. Long live Oswaldo Payá.

 

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President Trump visits Miami, promises to continue fight for freedom in Cuba and Venezuela
President Trump visits Miami, promises to continue fight for freedom in Cuba and Venezuela | Babalu Blog

President Trump was in Miami on Friday and met with leaders of the Cuban and Venezuelan pro-democracy opposition. The president promised he would continue to support the fight against the socialist tyrannies enslaving their nations.

Rosa María Payá and President Donald Trump

Here are the remarks made by Cuban democracy and human rights activist Rosa Maria Paya during her meeting with President Trump:
Rosa Maria Paya and President Donald Trump (English) - YouTube

The president of United States, Donald Trump promised on Friday to “fight” for Venezuela and Cuba during a visit to Florida, a state plagued by the coronavirus, a “plague” for which the Republican president again blamed China.

“We are going to fight for Venezuela. We are going to fight for our friends in Cuba,” Trump said at the headquarters of the Southern Command, in charge of US military operations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.
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Great speech by Maria Rosa Paya. Thank you for those important and brave words to president Trump. Near two million Cubans have come to this country though the last 60 years and became part of this great nation, with liberty and justice for all. The Cuban people know what tyranny really is because they lived it. Rosa María Paya, promoter of Cuba Decide, lives under constant threats, surveillance and intimidation by the Castroit regime. But she is not intimidated, she keeps fighting to bring back democracy to the Cuban People.

 

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Rosa Maria Payá keeps tirelessly working on behave of the Cuban people, condemning the human rights violations of the Castroit regime, a plebiscite to change the government, and held the regime accountable for its military interference in Venezuela. Her late father would be very proud of her.

#CubaDecide #DespiertaCuba #Trump2020 watch the whole Round Table in Magnificent speech by Maria Rosa Paya.

 

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Quote from Oswaldo Payá, Strasbourg France, December 17, 2002:

“Expelling us is not the solution neither for them nor for us, it would be better to ask yourself why are there young people who are filled with concern and worry for the welfare of the country. It would be good that they explain to the students and to the people what the Varela Project is, what does it ask, and so give everyone the right to think and choose.”

No way the Catroit tyrannical regime is going to do that. They will be baying the rope to hang themselves.

 

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Cuba's Dueling Traditions: December 10, 1948 and July 26, 1953
Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Cuba's Dueling Traditions: December 10, 1948 and July 26, 1953

John Suarez - SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2020
Moncada vs Varela

Bodies from July 26 Moncada Assault. Dissidents turn in Project Varela petitions

In the early morning hours of July 26, 1953 a group of Cubans led by Fidel Castro assaulted the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Approximately, 18 government officials were killed and 28 wounded in the attack. 27 rebels were killed and 11 wounded. 51 of the surviving 99 rebels were placed on trial. Fidel Castro turned himself in after seeking guarantees for his safety and was also put on trial....

Contrast this with what Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas did. In the midst of a totalitarian dictatorship were all media are controlled by the government along with economic life he managed to lead a movement that persuaded more than 24,000 Cubans to identify themselves, demand democratic reforms, and the restoration of human rights knowing that the Varela Project petition they were signing could lead to losing their jobs, having their children denied access to higher education and in the worst case prison.
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Project Varela stand for liberty and democracy in Cuba, and July 26 stand for tyranny and repression. Oswaldo manage to form a movement under which 24,000 Cubans signed the Varela Project petition delivered to the regime, requesting democratic reforms, and the restoration of human rights. This will cost to many of them to lose their jobs and in some cases sent to be sent to prison.

 

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On December 17, 2002, Oswaldo said this predictive words: “The cause of human rights is a single cause, just as the people of the world are a single people. The talk today is of globalization, but we must state that unless there is global solidarity, not only human rights but also the right to remain human will be jeopardized.”

 

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Rosa Maria Paya: Castro dictatorship withholding humanitarian aid is ‘a crime against the Cuban people’

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August 21, 2020 by Alberto de la Cruz

While the Cuban people suffer shortages of food, medicine, and basic items, the socialist Castro dictatorship is refusing to allow humanitarian aid sent from Miami to be distributed. The shipment sent to churches on the island contain many of the items Cubans are in dire need of during this difficult time, yet the Cuban regime is refusing to release it from a warehouse in Mariel.

Via CubaNet (my translation):

Opposition leader Rosa Maria Paya, director of the citizen initiative Cuba Decide, called on the island’s regime to release the humanitarian aid gathered in Miami this past May.
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The Castroit regime doesn’t care about the Cuban people. It only care about its survival. The humanitarian aid was ship to the port of Mariel to be distributed by religious organizations. They were notified by the carrier that the shipment had arrived at the Port of Mariel. They have gone to the port several times to retrieve the aid, but the regime has refused to release it to the churches. What a despicable tyrannical regime it is.

 

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Rosa Maria Paya: Castro dictatorship withholding humanitarian aid is ‘a crime against the Cuban people’

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August 21, 2020 by Alberto de la Cruz

While the Cuban people suffer shortages of food, medicine, and basic items, the socialist Castro dictatorship is refusing to allow humanitarian aid sent from Miami to be distributed. The shipment sent to churches on the island contain many of the items Cubans are in dire need of during this difficult time, yet the Cuban regime is refusing to release it from a warehouse in Mariel.

Via CubaNet (my translation):

Opposition leader Rosa Maria Paya, director of the citizen initiative Cuba Decide, called on the island’s regime to release the humanitarian aid gathered in Miami this past May.

In a video being shared on social media, the activist said the shipment remains held at the Port of Mariel waiting for authorities to release it to Cuban churches.
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The Castroit regime doesn’t care about the Cuban people. It only care about its survival. The humanitarian aid was ship to the port of Mariel to be distributed by religious organizations. They were notified by the carrier that the shipment had arrived at the Port of Mariel. They have gone to the port several times to retrieve the aid, but the regime has refused to release it to the churches. What a despicable tyrannical regime it is.

 

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Rosa Maria Paya Opposes Cuba’s Election to the UNHRC

https://unwatch.org/rosa-maria-paya-opposes-cubas-election-to-the-unhrc/

October 9, 2020 - Human Rights, United Nations - Rosa Maria Paya, UNHRC Election

Rosa Maria Paya Opposes Cuba's Candidacy to the U.N. Human Rights Council

Greetings to you all, and a special thanks to Hillel and UN Watch for providing this opportunity.

In 2013, Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary-General, received and circulated a petition to create an international committee in order to conduct an independent investigation into the killing of Cuban political activist Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas. July 22 will mark nine years since my father, Oswaldo Payá, was assassinated by the Cuban communist regime. The investigation has yet to be conducted by the UN while the Cuban regime is again seeking a seat on the Human Rights Council, from where they pretend to protect their impunity and ensure sure that the multiple accusations against them, or against the rest of their criminal friends, in Venezuela, China, Russia, Belarus, etc. do not prosper.
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Cuba, China and Russia have been elected to the UN Human Rights Council. The foxes are guarding the hen house. In other words, they are in charge of policing themselves. The more friendlier that other countries in the UN become to the Castroit regime, the more intense its repression becomes. After 641 years without human rights under the Castroit tyrannical monarchy, the Cuban people is craving for freedom and change of the bankrupt system.

 

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Rosa Maria Paya Opposes Cuba’s Election to the UNHRC

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October 9, 2020 - Human Rights, United Nations - Rosa Maria Paya, UNHRC Election

Rosa Maria Paya Opposes Cuba's Candidacy to the U.N. Human Rights Council



Greetings to you all, and a special thanks to Hillel and UN Watch for providing this opportunity.

In 2013, Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary-General, received and circulated a petition to create an international committee in order to conduct an independent investigation into the killing of Cuban political activist Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas. July 22 will mark nine years since my father, Oswaldo Payá, was assassinated by the Cuban communist regime. The investigation has yet to be conducted by the UN while the Cuban regime is again seeking a seat on the Human Rights Council, from where they pretend to protect their impunity and ensure sure that the multiple accusations against them, or against the rest of their criminal friends, in Venezuela, China, Russia, Belarus, etc. do not prosper.
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Cuba, China and Russia have been elected to the UN Human Rights Council. The foxes are guarding the hen house. In other words, they are in charge of policing themselves. The more friendlier that other countries in the UN become to the Castroit regime, the more intense its repression becomes. After 61 years without human rights under the Castroit tyrannical monarchy, the Cuban people is craving for freedom and change of the bankrupt system.

 

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Achievements and challenges of Cuba Decide in the third quarter of 2020

Achievements and challenges of Cuba Decide in the third quarter of 2020 - Cuba Decide

During the last quarter, despite the many challenges of the humanitarian crisis, political repression and COVID-19 on the Island, Cuba Decide has not lost its momentum and continues to grow among Cubans everywhere.

During the last quarter, despite many challenges that COVID-19 has brought forth, Cuba Decide has not lost its momentum and continues to make accomplishments while fighting for the Cuban people.On July 22, a day-long digital tribute gathered Cubans and international figures around the world and across the Island. For 12 hours, the Fundación para la Democracia Panamericana (FDP) and the Cuba Decide citizen initiative led by Rosa María Payá, conducted an homage in real time, to honor the martyrs of Cuban democracy, Harold Cepero (1980-2012) and Oswaldo Payá (1952-2012), both assassinated in Cuba on Sunday, July 22, 2012, by State Security agents on behalf of the Cuban regime.
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Rosa Maria Payá has been very active in Cuba decide. She met with the members of the European Parliament, with regard to the winners of this year’s Oswaldo Payá Freedom and Life Award; participated in the forum “Freedom of conscience and democratic struggle” and in the Ibero-American Summit discussion about Democracy vs. Populism, and was recognized as the CHLI Ileana Ros-Lehtinen International Leadership Honoree

 

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Two young artists have been condemned to death in Cuba

Fundación para la Democracia Panamericana: Two young artists have been condemned to death in Cuba; the only way to save them is to obtain the release of the wrongfully convicted musician Denis Solís (prnewswire.com)

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Nov 24, 2020

MIAMI, Nov. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A healthy adult can live a maximum of five - at most, seven - days without drinking water under normal conditions. The bodies of Maykel and Luis Manuel are deteriorating at an alarming rate, traces of blood in their urine warn of imminent kidney complications. Doctors warn that multiorgan failure could occur at any time.

"We are running out of time" said activist and Morris Abram Award recipient Rosa María Payá.
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We urgently request the international community to intervene before the dictatorship for the freedom of Denis Solis and the life of artists and activists on the hunger strike.
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Over two dozen Cuban protesters met with a regime minister, after hundreds of people demonstrated in Havana this week in a showing of public dissent against curbs to freedom of expression and the detention of artists and activists, among them Cuban rapper Denis Solis. The two people on hunger strike are demanding Denis release, “who was arrested, tried and convicted within 48 hours for ordering a policeman to leave his home after he broke in without permission.” The regimen KGV security agency in action.

 

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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)

Hatzel Vela, Reporter

Published: December 10, 2020

MIAMI – A group of activists held a demonstration on Thursday under the shadow of Miami’s Freedom Tower. The historic landmark is where the former U.S. assistance center for Cuban refugees was after Fidel Castro began to implement his Soviet version of Communism in the 1960s.

Rosa Maria Paya is leading the demonstration in solidarity with a group of activists in Havana. The daughter of Oswaldo Paya, who was an engineer and Catholic dissident, believes the Cuban government caused his death in a 2012 car crash after decades of harassment.

For years, Rosa Maria Paya has been demonstrating against the repression of a system that she says needs to come to an end in Cuba. She is the director of Cuba Decide, a pro-democracy movement in support of human rights.

“It’s a call for solidarity and for action,” she said about the demonstration to raise awareness about the plight of Cuban dissidents who are active in the San Isidro Movement in Havana and to mark the United Nations’ celebration of Human Rights Day.
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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.

 

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Video of the Day: Cuba Decide’s Rosa Maria Paya talks to Democratic Spaces

Video of the Day: Cuba Decide’s Rosa Maria Paya talks to Democratic Spaces | Babalú Blog (babalublog.com)

January 24, 2021 by Alberto de la Cruz

Democracy activist and founder of Cuba Decide, Rosa Maria Paya, talks to Democratic Spaces about growing support for freedom in Cuba in Canada.

(28) TALKING WITH ROSA MARÍA PAYÁ ON THE EVENT WITH GLOBAL AFFAIRS CANADA - YouTube

I had the immense pleasure of talking with Rosa María Payá, founder of the Cubadecide citizen initiative about the event with Global Affairs Canada on January 19, 2021 and more broadly the efforts undertaken by Cuban Canadian activists to exert pressure on the Canadian government to recognize the dictatorial nature of the regime clinging on to power in Cuba.

This is a translated version of most portions of the interview. For a full length interview in Spanish see at Cubadecide´s Facebook page and Youtube channel

Rosa Maria Paya keeps fighting for the freedom of the Cuban people. Her program Cuba Decide (Cuba Decides) is a space where her compromise with peaceful changes in Cuba, invites you to think, reflect and ask yourself many questions in her program, "You decide", a new space that aspires to start with thought and end with peaceful action in claiming the curtailed rights of the Cuban people.

 

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Cuban Exiles and Opponents Ask Biden for Democratic Changes Without Concessions

Cuban Exiles and Opponents Ask Biden for Democratic Changes Without Concessions – Translating Cuba

Rosa Maria Paya
February 13, 2021


Rosa María Payá, from Cuba Decides said that they are in favor of “direct” remittances without the intervention of the Cuban government. (EFE / Giorgio Viera)

EFE/14ymedio, Miami, 12 February 2021 — On Friday, Cuban exiles and opposition groups in Cuba urged United States president Joe Biden and the US Congress that the review of the policy towards Cuba should be based on democratic change without “unilateral concessions” to the government of President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

For several weeks, Cubans “committed to democracy” drew up a plan with 162 proposals that they sent this Friday to the White House, the State Department, and Congress, according to Rosa María Payá, from Cuba Decides, speaking to Efe.

The activist also rejected “aggressive” requests made by the Cuban government and other actors on the Island to the new US Administration of Democrat Biden.
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Rosa María Payá of Cuba Decide and opposition groups in Cuba request from the Biden administration and the US Congress that “the review of the policy towards Cuba should be based on democratic change without ‘unilateral concessions’ to the government”, has already garnered bipartisan support from the U.S. Senate. Senators Bob Menendez a Democrat senator and Marco Rubio a Republican, presented a resolution expressing solidarity with members of the San Isidro Movement and requested the Cuban authorities to initiate a dialogue process with independent artists. The resolution also demanded the release of rapper Denis Solis and the repeal of decrees 349 and 370 that regulate and violate freedom of expression in Cuba.