MADRID.- The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) denounced a significant increase in repression by the dictatorship of Miguel Díaz-Canel against the civilian population in Cuba after the protests in March.
In its most recent report, “we are tremendously concerned about the increase in repression that has been seen in recent weeks, including the use of violence against academics, activists, political prisoners and independent journalists,” he told Martí News Yaxis Cires, Director of Strategies of the entity based in Madrid, Spain.
“We join the concern expressed by the church regarding the seriousness of the socioeconomic situation in the country. In no case is the answer in repression and violation of human rights,” said Cires and made reference to the importance of producing “political, economic and social changes” that guarantee the people “develop their lives in freedom and with prosperity”.
At the end of March, State Security summoned and threatened to imprison the General Secretary of the Independent Trade Union Association of Cuba (ASIC), the political prisoner on extra-penal leave Iván Hernández Carrillo, for “endangering the constitutional order and mercenarism.”
Likewise, it happened with the former political prisoner Luis Darién Reyes Romero, intimidated with a gun in the middle of the street in Old Havana by an agent dressed in plain clothes.
The Observatory also highlighted the cases of independent journalists José Luis Tan Estrada, fined 3,000 pesos for “violating Decree Law 370” and Camila Acosta detained on Sunday in Cárdenas, province of Matanzas, when she was on her way to visit relatives of prisoners. politicians.
“They didn’t talk to me, they didn’t give me an explanation, they simply put me in the patrol car in Cárdenas and told me that they were sending me to Havana,” Acosta said after being released, reports the web portal. Martí News.
The month of March has been the most turbulent month in Cuba due to a new outbreak of protests social issues, in the most recent report from the Cuban Observatory of Conflicts, 654 demonstrations were recorded by Cubans who took to the streets to demand freedom, food and electricity.
“The economic package implemented by the Cuban government this month generated deep discontent, in the face of disastrous measures that have done nothing but increase instability and rejection among the population,” said the Cuban Conflict Observatoryin his report.
The report also points to the economic crisis as the main reason for the protests that took place in the month of March. Cubans took to the streets to demand the increase in prices, partial dollarization and the devaluation of the Cuban peso.
“The Cuban population is facing increasing economic difficulties, which has generated frustration and hopelessness in the economic future of the country, exposed in another social outbreak that multiplied automatically, like the usual violent response of the state, a increasingly documented before international organizations” states the report
Source: WRITING
